--- title: A cobra spreads its hood, a rattlesnake buzzes its rattle and a blac… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: A cobra spreads its hood, a rattlesnake buzzes its rattle and a black mamba opens its inky black mouth, all saying «I am dangerous, go away». Who acts: cobra, rattlesnake, black mamba, all. 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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 (cobra, rattlesnake, black mamba, all), 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:3 # text = A cobra spreads its hood, a rattlesnake buzzes its rattle and a black mamba opens its inky black mouth, all saying «I am dangerous, go away». # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cobra cobra NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 hood hood NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rattlesnake rattlesnake NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 buzzes buzz VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 rattle rattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 mamba mamba NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 18 inky inky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 all all PRON DT PronType=Tot 23 nsubj _ _ 23 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 parataxis _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | a cobra | poison's hood | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hood=Theme | | 2 | **buzz** | present | a rattlesnake | hood's rattle | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rattle=Theme | | 3 | **open** | present | a black mamba | hood's inky black mouth | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | all | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | all | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **go away** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **rattle** | | hood | | | | | | nom rattle «event intransitive»: 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:3`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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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