--- title: Snakes are cold-blooded, so they need far less food than mammals; a… — The reptile house: snakes · tree and pragmatics description: Snakes are cold-blooded, so they need far less food than mammals; a big python can go months without a meal. Who acts: Snakes, tips, big python. 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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 (Snakes, tips, big python), 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:4 # text = Snakes are cold-blooded, so they need far less food than mammals; a big python can go months without a meal. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 blooded blooded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 11 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 python python NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 without without ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Snakes | | | | | blooded *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | tips *= tip* | less food | | | | than mammals | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme | | 3 | **go** | can | a big python | | | | month | without a meal | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:087-reptile-house-snakes.lesson:4`. **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): R7-rel-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/3/) - next →: [The reptile house: snakes, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/)