--- title: Cobras hear sounds in the air poorly; a charmer's cobra follows the… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: Cobras hear sounds in the air poorly; a charmer's cobra follows the swaying pipe as if it were a threat, and India banned snake charming in 1972. Who acts: Cobras, cobra, pipe, India. 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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 (Cobras, cobra, pipe, India), 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:18 # text = Cobras hear sounds in the air poorly; a charmer's cobra follows the swaying pipe as if it were a threat, and India banned snake charming in 1972. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cobras cobra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 poorly poorly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 charmer charmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 cobra cobra NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 swaying sway VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 advcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 banned ban VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 27 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 charming charm NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 1972 1972 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | Cobras | sounds | | the air | | poorly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | | 2 | **follow** | present | a charmer's cobra | the swaying pipe | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme | | 3 | **sway** | gerund | | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | past | pipe | a threat | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **ban** | past | India | snake charming | | 1972 | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer charm=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:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:18`. **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): 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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