--- title: Some harmless snakes, like the milk snake, look like the venomous co… — The reptile house: snakes · tree and pragmatics description: Some harmless snakes, like the milk snake, look like the venomous coral snake, which is called mimicry; colour rhymes are not reliable, so never touch a wild snake. Who acts: harmless snakes, colour rhymes. 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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 (harmless snakes, colour rhymes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:087-reptile-house-snakes.lesson:12 # text = Some harmless snakes, like the milk snake, look like the venomous coral snake, which is called mimicry; colour rhymes are not reliable, so never touch a wild snake. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 087-reptile-house-snakes.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 coral coral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 mimicry mimicry NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 rhymes rhyme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 reliable reliable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | some harmless snakes | | | | | like the milk snake; like the venomous coral snake | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **call** | present · passive | | the venomous coral snake | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | colour rhymes | | | | | reliable *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **touch** | infinitive | some harmless snakes *not said here* | a wild snake | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snake=Co-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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