--- title: Of about 4,000 kinds of snake, only about 200 are really dangerous t… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: Of about 4,000 kinds of snake, only about 200 are really dangerous to people, and many snakes help farmers by eating rats. Who acts: 200, many snakes. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 8 Of about 4,000 kinds of snake, only about 200 are really dangerous to people, and many snakes help farmers by eating rats. **Who acts:** 200, many snakes · **What happens:** be, help, eat · **To what, where:** farmers, rats 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 (200, many snakes), 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:8 # text = Of about 4,000 kinds of snake, only about 200 are really dangerous to people, and many snakes help farmers by eating rats. # 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 Of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 about about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 4,000 4,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 really really ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 24 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | 200 | | | | | of 4,000 kinds of snake; to people; dangerous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | many snakes | | farmers | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Beneficiary | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | many snakes *not said here* | rats | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=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:8`. **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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