--- title: The king cobra is the longest venomous snake, growing to about 5 met… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: The king cobra is the longest venomous snake, growing to about 5 metres; it eats mostly other snakes, and its science name Ophiophagus means «snake-eater». Who acts: king cobra, venomous snake, skin, science name. 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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 (king cobra, venomous snake, skin, science name), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:10 # text = The king cobra is the longest venomous snake, growing to about 5 metres; it eats mostly other snakes, and its science name Ophiophagus means «snake-eater». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cobra cobra NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 longest long ADV RBS Degree=Sup 7 advmod _ _ 7 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 18 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod:poss 24 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound 26 Ophiophagus ophiophagus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 29 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 eater eater NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **is a** | present | the king cobra | the venomous snake | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | the venomous snake *not said here* | | | | | to 5 metres | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | present | skin | other snakes | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient | | 4 | **mean** | present | skin's science name | snake eater | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eater=Topic | | 5 | **name** | | skin | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: 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:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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