--- title: Before shedding, a snake's eyes turn cloudy as the old skin over the… — The reptile house: snakes · tree and pragmatics description: Before shedding, a snake's eyes turn cloudy as the old skin over them loosens; snakes grow all their lives, but the outer skin cannot stretch, so they peel off the old skin whole, often inside out, eye caps and all. Who acts: eyes, old skin, snakes, outer skin. 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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 (eyes, old skin, snakes, outer skin), 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:7 # text = Before shedding, a snake's eyes turn cloudy as the old skin over them loosens; snakes grow all their lives, but the outer skin cannot stretch, so they peel off the old skin whole, often inside out, eye caps and all. # 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 ×5 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 shedding shed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 cloudy cloudy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 loosens loosen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 20 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 stretch stretch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 peel peel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 off off ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obl 39 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:amod 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 often often ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 inside inside ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 out out ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 caps cap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 46 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:conj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shed** | gerund | a snake's eyes *not said here* | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 2 | **turn** | present | a snake's eyes | | | | | cloudy *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **loosen** | present | the old skin over eyes | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | present | snakes | eyes's lives | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location life=Theme | | 5 | **not** **stretch** | can | the outer skin | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **peel off** | present | eyes *= eye* | the old skin | | | | out, whole *property* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Source | 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:7`. **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 ×5. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/5/) - next →: [The reptile house: snakes, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/)