--- title: A cobra lifts the front of its body and spreads long ribs in its nec… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: A cobra lifts the front of its body and spreads long ribs in its neck to stretch the skin into a hood, a warning that says «I am big, leave me alone». Who acts: cobra, warning. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» of the biology course of Mova' --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 9 A cobra lifts the front of its body and spreads long ribs in its neck to stretch the skin into a hood, a warning that says «I am big, leave me alone». **Who acts:** cobra, warning · **What happens:** lift, spread, stretch, say, be, leave · **To what, where:** front, long ribs, neck, skin, hood, warning · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (cobra, warning), 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:9 # text = A cobra lifts the front of its body and spreads long ribs in its neck to stretch the skin into a hood, a warning that says «I am big, leave me alone». # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cobra cobra NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 stretch stretch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 hood hood NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 33 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 alone alone ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 37 . . 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 | **lift** | present | a cobra | the front of front's body | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent front=Theme | | 2 | **spread** | present | a cobra *not said here* | long ribs | | front's neck | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rib=Theme in neck=Destination | | 3 | **stretch** | to-infinitive | a cobra *not said here* | the skin | | | | into a hood *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent skin=Patient into hood=Result | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a warning | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a warning *= warning* | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a warning *= warning* | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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