--- title: Snakes smell with their forked tongue, which carries scent to a spec… — Snakes and lizards · tree and pragmatics description: Snakes smell with their forked tongue, which carries scent to a special organ in the roof of the mouth and tells which side a smell is stronger on. Who acts: Snakes, forked tongue, smell. 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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 (Snakes, forked tongue, smell), 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:5 # text = Snakes smell with their forked tongue, which carries scent to a special organ in the roof of the mouth and tells which side a smell is stronger on. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 smell smell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 forked fork VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 organ organ NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 24 det _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Int 24 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 ccomp _ _ 29 on on ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **smell** | present | Snakes | | | | | with Snakes's forked tongue | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location | | 2 | **fork** | participle | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carry** | present | Snakes's forked tongue | scent | | a special organ in the roof of the mouth | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scent=Theme to organ=Destination | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Snakes's forked tongue *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | a smell | | | | | which side *obl*; strong *property* | tree rules | 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:5`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/4/) - next →: [Snakes and lizards, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/)