--- title: In cartoons a snake charmer plays a flute and the cobra dances to th… — The reptile house: snakes · tree and pragmatics description: In cartoons a snake charmer plays a flute and the cobra dances to the tune, and in The Jungle Book Kaa hypnotises with spinning eyes, but snakes have no outer ears and hear little of the music, and they have no eyelids, so their stare only looks spooky. Who acts: snake charmer, cobra, Kaa, snakes. 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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 (snake charmer, cobra, Kaa, snakes), 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:2 # text = In cartoons a snake charmer plays a flute and the cobra dances to the tune, and in The Jungle Book Kaa hypnotises with spinning eyes, but snakes have no outer ears and hear little of the music, and they have no eyelids, so their stare only looks spooky. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 charmer charmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 flute flute NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 11 cobra cobra NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound 12 dances dance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tune tune NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Jungle Jungle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Book Book PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 22 Kaa Kaa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hypnotises hypnotise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 spinning spin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 26 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 32 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 36 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:obj 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 44 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 45 det _ _ 45 eyelids eyelid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 47 so so ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 48 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 stare stare NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 50 only only ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 52 spooky spooky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 xcomp _ _ 53 . . 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 | **play** | present | a snake charmer | a flute | | cartoons | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme | | 2 | **dance** | present | the cobra | | | the tune | | | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to tune=Trajectory | | 3 | **hypnotise** | present | Kaa | | | the Jungle Book | | with spinning eyes | tree rules | | 4 | **spin** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | snakes | no outer ears | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 6 | **hear** | present | snakes *not said here* | little of the music | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | | 7 | **have** | present | ears *= ear* | no eyelids | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | | 8 | **look** | present | ears's stare | | | | | spooky *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 9 | **stare** | | ears *= ear* | | | | | | nom stare «act 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:087-reptile-house-snakes.lesson:2`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The reptile house: snakes, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/1/) - next →: [The reptile house: snakes, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/)