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title: Snakes are reptiles, and some lizards, like the slow worm, have no l… — Classifying unusual animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Snakes are reptiles, and some lizards, like the slow worm, have no legs. Who acts: Snakes, lizards. A sentence of the lesson «Classifying unusual animals» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Classifying unusual animals, sentence 15

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Snakes are reptiles, and some lizards, like the slow worm, have no legs.

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**Who acts:** Snakes, lizards · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** reptiles, legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Classifying unusual animals» of the world 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 (Snakes, lizards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.lesson:15
# text = Snakes are reptiles, and some lizards, like the slow worm, have no legs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 029-classifying-unusual-animals.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): no change
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Snakes | reptiles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | some lizards like the slow worm | no legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |

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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.

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**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:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.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): no change. **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/).

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