--- title: In The Jungle Book, Kaa the python hypnotises people with spinning e… — Snakes and lizards · tree and pragmatics description: In The Jungle Book, Kaa the python hypnotises people with spinning eyes; real snakes can't hypnotise anyone, they just have no eyelids, so their stare never blinks. Who acts: Kaa, real snakes, Snakes, stare. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaa, real snakes, Snakes, stare), 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:3 # text = In The Jungle Book, Kaa the python hypnotises people with spinning eyes; real snakes can't hypnotise anyone, they just have no eyelids, so their stare never blinks. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Jungle Jungle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Book Book PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Kaa Kaa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 python python NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 hypnotises hypnotise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 spinning spin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 hypnotise hypnotise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 20 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 just just ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 eyelids eyelid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 stare stare NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 blinks blink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hypnotise** | present | Kaa | people | | the Jungle Book | | with spinning eyes | tree rules | | 2 | **spin** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **hypnotise** | can | real snakes | anyone | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | Snakes *= snake* | no eyelids | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | | 5 | **not** **blink** | present | Snakes's stare | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stare** | | Snakes *= snake* | | | | | | nom stare «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:3`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/2/) - next →: [Snakes and lizards, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/)