--- title: A rattlesnake's rattle is made of hollow rings of hard skin; a ring… — The reptile house: snakes · tree and pragmatics description: A rattlesnake's rattle is made of hollow rings of hard skin; a ring is added at each shed, several times a year, and old rings break off, so you cannot tell its age by counting them. Who acts: old rings, you, rattlesnake. 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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 (old rings, you, rattlesnake), 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:13 # text = A rattlesnake's rattle is made of hollow rings of hard skin; a ring is added at each shed, several times a year, and old rings break off, so you cannot tell its age by counting them. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rattlesnake rattlesnake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 rattle rattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 shed shed NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:unmarked _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 by by SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **make** | present · passive | | a rattlesnake's rattle | | | | of hollow rings of hard skin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | a ring | | each shed | time | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **break off** | present | old rings | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | you | rattle's age | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent age=Recipient | | 5 | **count** | gerund | you *not said here* | rings *= ring* | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **rattle** | | a rattlesnake | | | | | | nom rattle «event intransitive»: poss=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. 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