--- title: A mother king cobra builds a nest of leaves for her eggs, which almo… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: A mother king cobra builds a nest of leaves for her eggs, which almost no other snake does. Who acts: mother king cobra, other snake. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/11/) [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 to keep away from: cobras, mamb…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/) / 11 # Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 11 A mother king cobra builds a nest of leaves for her eggs, which almost no other snake does. **Who acts:** mother king cobra, other snake · **What happens:** build, do · **To what, where:** nest This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» 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 (mother king cobra, other snake), 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:11 # text = A mother king cobra builds a nest of leaves for her eggs, which almost no other snake does. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cobra cobra NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 15 almost almost ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **build** | present | a mother king cobra | a nest of leaves | | | | for name's eggs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent nest=Material for egg=Beneficiary | | 2 | **do** | present | no other snake | a nest of leaves | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | 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:11`. **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. **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 to keep away from: cobras, mamb…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/10/) - next →: [Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mamb…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/)