--- title: Most snakes hunt rats, mice, frogs or insects and keep away from peo… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: Most snakes hunt rats, mice, frogs or insects and keep away from people, and snakes help farmers by eating rats that spoil grain. Who acts: Most snakes, snakes, rats. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 20 Most snakes hunt rats, mice, frogs or insects and keep away from people, and snakes help farmers by eating rats that spoil grain. **Who acts:** Most snakes, snakes, rats · **What happens:** hunt, keep away, help, eat, spoil · **To what, where:** rats, farmers, grain 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 (Most snakes, snakes, rats), 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:20 # text = Most snakes hunt rats, mice, frogs or insects and keep away from people, and snakes help farmers by eating rats that spoil grain. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 away away ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 by by SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 23 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 spoil spoil VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **hunt** | present | Most snakes | rats and mice and frogs or insects | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | | 2 | **keep away** | present | Most snakes *not said here* | | | | | from people; away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from people=Eventuality | | 3 | **help** | present | snakes | | farmers | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Beneficiary | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | snakes *not said here* | rats | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient | | 5 | **spoil** | present | rats | grain | | | | | tree rules | 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:20`. **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, 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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