--- title: The grass snake, with two yellow patches behind its head, is harmles… — Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: d… · tree and pragmatics description: The grass snake, with two yellow patches behind its head, is harmless, loves water and frogs, and defends itself by hissing, giving off a bad smell or playing dead; it is still best to leave all snakes alone. Who acts: grass snake. 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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 (grass snake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.lesson:16 # text = The grass snake, with two yellow patches behind its head, is harmless, loves water and frogs, and defends itself by hissing, giving off a bad smell or playing dead; it is still best to leave all snakes alone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 9 behind behind ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 16 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 defends defend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 23 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obj _ _ 24 by by SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 hissing hiss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advcl 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 34 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 expl _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 still still ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 csubj _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 43 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 alone alone ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the grass snake with two yellow patches behind snake's head | | | | | harmless *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **love** | present | the grass snake with two yellow patches behind snake's head *not said here* | water and frogs | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | | 3 | **defend** | present | the grass snake with two yellow patches behind snake's head *not said here* | snake | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary | | 4 | **hiss** | gerund | the grass snake with two yellow patches behind snake's head *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give off** | gerund | the grass snake with two yellow patches behind snake's head *not said here* | a bad smell | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source smell=Theme | | 6 | **play** | gerund | the grass snake with two yellow patches behind snake's head *not said here* | | | | | dead *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | | | | | still | good *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **leave** | to-infinitive | | all snakes | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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. 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