--- title: Snakes shed their skin in one piece as they grow, starting at the li… — Snakes and lizards · tree and pragmatics description: Snakes shed their skin in one piece as they grow, starting at the lips, and their eyes turn cloudy blue just before. Who acts: Snakes, eyes. 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 every clause. --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Snakes and lizards, sentence 6 Snakes shed their skin in one piece as they grow, starting at the lips, and their eyes turn cloudy blue just before. **Who acts:** Snakes, eyes · **What happens:** shed, grow, start, turn · **To what, where:** skin, one piece, lips 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, eyes), 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:6 # text = Snakes shed their skin in one piece as they grow, starting at the lips, and their eyes turn cloudy blue just before. # 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): no change 1 Snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shed shed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 cloudy cloudy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 23 just just ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 before before ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 25 . . 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 | **shed** | past | Snakes | Snakes's skin | | one piece | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source | | 2 | **grow** | present | Snakes *= snake* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **start** | gerund | Snakes *= snake* *not said here* | | | the lips | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **turn** | present | Snakes's eyes | | | | | before, blue *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:6`. **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): no change. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/5/) - next →: [Snakes and lizards, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/)