--- title: Snakes push their bodies against bumps on the ground to move, and py… — Snakes and lizards · tree and pragmatics description: Snakes push their bodies against bumps on the ground to move, and pythons still have tiny leg bones left from ancestors with legs. Who acts: Snakes, pythons. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes and lizards» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Snakes and lizards](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/) / 12 # Snakes and lizards, sentence 12 Snakes push their bodies against bumps on the ground to move, and pythons still have tiny leg bones left from ancestors with legs. **Who acts:** Snakes, pythons · **What happens:** push, move, have, leave · **To what, where:** bodies, bumps, tiny leg bones, ancestors This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes and lizards» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snakes, pythons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:12 # text = Snakes push their bodies against bumps on the ground to move, and pythons still have tiny leg bones left from ancestors with legs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3 1 Snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 against against ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 bumps bump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 pythons python NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | present | Snakes | Snakes's bodies | | bumps on the ground | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent body=Theme against bump=Trajectory | | 2 | **move** | to-infinitive | Snakes *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | pythons | tiny leg bones | | | still | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 4 | **leave** | participle | | tiny leg bones *not said here* | | ancestors | | with legs | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ancestor=Initial\_Location | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:12`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Snakes and lizards, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/11/) - next →: [Snakes and lizards, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/)