--- title: A snake's skin is dry and smooth, not slimy; it looks shiny because… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics description: A snake's skin is dry and smooth, not slimy; it looks shiny because of its scales. Who acts: skin. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/) / 15 # Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 15 A snake's skin is dry and smooth, not slimy; it looks shiny because of its scales. **Who acts:** skin · **What happens:** be, not be, look This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:15 # text = A snake's skin is dry and smooth, not slimy; it looks shiny because of its scales. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 slimy slimy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 15 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 19 case _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a snake's skin | | | | | dry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a snake's skin *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **be** | | a snake's skin *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | present | skin | | | | | because skin's scales; shiny *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:15`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. 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