--- title: A snake smells with its forked tongue, touching scent to a special o… — The reptile house: snakes · tree and pragmatics description: A snake smells with its forked tongue, touching scent to a special organ in the roof of its mouth; the tongue is harmless. Who acts: snake, forked tongue, tongue. 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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, forked tongue, tongue), 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:5 # text = A snake smells with its forked tongue, touching scent to a special organ in the roof of its mouth; the tongue is harmless. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 forked fork VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 touching touch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 organ organ NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **smell** | present | a snake | | | | | with python's forked tongue | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location | | 2 | **fork** | participle | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **touch** | gerund | python's forked tongue *not said here* | scent | | | | to a special organ in the roof of python's mouth | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme scent=Co-Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | the tongue | | | | | harmless *property* | tree rules | 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:5`. **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, 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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/4/) - next →: [The reptile house: snakes, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/)