Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 0
The Amazon has real giants: the green anaconda, the heaviest snake on Earth, lies in a swamp with only its eyes and nostrils above the water, and the black caiman can grow more than four metres long.
Who acts: Amazon, green anaconda, black caiman · What happens: have, lie, grow · To what, where: real giants, swamp, four metres
This is a sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» of the biology 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 (Amazon, green anaconda, black caiman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Amazon | det |
| 2 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 giants | amod |
| 5 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 lies | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 anaconda | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 anaconda | amod |
| 9 | anaconda | anaconda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lies | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 snake | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 snake | det |
| 12 | heaviest | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 snake | amod |
| 13 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anaconda | appos |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Earth | case |
| 15 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 snake | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 anaconda | punct |
| 17 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 swamp | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 swamp | det |
| 20 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lies | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 eyes | case |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 eyes | advmod |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swamp | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 nostrils | cc |
| 26 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 eyes | conj |
| 27 | above | above | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 water | det |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eyes | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 grow | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 grow | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 caiman | det |
| 33 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 caiman | amod |
| 34 | caiman | caiman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grow | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 grow | aux |
| 36 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lies | conj |
| 37 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 39 four | advmod |
| 38 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 more | fixed |
| 39 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 metres | nummod |
| 40 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 grow | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 metres | amod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Amazon | real giants | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | the green anaconda | a swamp with anaconda's eyes above the water and nostrils | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in swamp=Location | ||||
| 3 | grow | can | the black caiman | four metres | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, 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:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:0.
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. 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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