--- title: Snake charmers' cobras do not dance to music, mambas do not chase ho… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: Snake charmers' cobras do not dance to music, mambas do not chase horses, and sucking out venom does not help a bitten friend. Who acts: cobras, mambas, sucking. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary schoo --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 5 Snake charmers' cobras do not dance to music, mambas do not chase horses, and sucking out venom does not help a bitten friend. **Who acts:** cobras, mambas, sucking · **What happens:** not dance, not chase, suck out, not help, bite · **To what, where:** music, horses, venom, bitten friend 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 (cobras, mambas, sucking), 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:5 # text = Snake charmers' cobras do not dance to music, mambas do not chase horses, and sucking out venom does not help a bitten friend. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 charmers charmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 ' 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 cobras cobra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 9 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 11 mambas mamba NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 15 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 sucking suck VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 csubj _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 bitten bite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **not** **dance** | present · do-support | Snake charmers's cobras | | | music | | | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to music=Trajectory | | 2 | **not** **chase** | present · do-support | mambas | horses | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | | 3 | **suck out** | gerund | | venom | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent venom=Source | | 4 | **not** **help** | present · do-support | sucking | | a bitten friend | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary | | 5 | **bite** | participle | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=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:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mamb…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/4/) - next →: [Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mamb…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/6/) - ↑ 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/)