--- title: The cobra sways to keep facing the moving flute, which it sees as a… — The reptile house: snakes · tree and pragmatics description: The cobra sways to keep facing the moving flute, which it sees as a threat; a snake would much rather warn you off than waste its venom. Who acts: cobra, 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 (cobra, snake), 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:3 # text = The cobra sways to keep facing the moving flute, which it sees as a threat; a snake would much rather warn you off than waste its venom. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 cobra cobra NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sways sway VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:acl 6 facing face VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 flute flute NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 much much ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 22 rather rather ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:iobj 25 off off ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 26 than than CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 waste waste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . 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 | **sway** | present | the cobra | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the cobra *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **face** | gerund | the cobra *not said here* | the moving flute | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flute=Destination | | 4 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | present | cobra | the moving flute | | | | as a threat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus as threat=Attribute | | 6 | **warn off** *speech: warn* | would | a snake | | you | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 7 | **waste** | infinitive | a snake *not said here* | snake's venom | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | 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:3`. **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, 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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/2/) - next →: [The reptile house: snakes, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/)