--- title: The king cobra is the longest venomous snake, up to about 5 metres;… — The reptile house: snakes · tree and pragmatics description: The king cobra is the longest venomous snake, up to about 5 metres; it spreads its neck ribs into a hood as a warning and eats mostly other snakes. Who acts: king cobra, cobra. 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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 (king cobra, cobra), 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:9 # text = The king cobra is the longest venomous snake, up to about 5 metres; it spreads its neck ribs into a hood as a warning and eats mostly other snakes. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cobra cobra NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 7 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 up up ADP IN _ 14 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 11 to to ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:case 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hood hood NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 29 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **is a** | present | the king cobra | the longest venomous snake and 5 metres | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **spread** | present | cobra | cobra's neck ribs | | a hood | | as a warning | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rib=Theme into hood=Destination | | 3 | **eat** | present | cobra *not said here* | other snakes | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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:9`. **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 ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/8/) - next →: [The reptile house: snakes, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/)