--- title: Black mambas are grey or olive-brown; the name comes from the inky b… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: Black mambas are grey or olive-brown; the name comes from the inky black inside of the mouth, and their top speed is reported at only about 15 to 20 kilometres an hour. Who acts: Black mambas, 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 (Black mambas, 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:14 # text = Black mambas are grey or olive-brown; the name comes from the inky black inside of the mouth, and their top speed is reported at only about 15 to 20 kilometres an hour. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 mambas mamba NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 6 olive olive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 15 inky inky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 16 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 17 inside inside ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 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 12 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:case 33 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:unmarked _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | Black mambas | | | | | grey *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Black mambas *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | present | the name | | | the inky black mouth | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **report** | present · passive | | mambas's top speed | | 15 20 kilometres a hour | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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