Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 1

Around such animals tall tales grow fast: explorers told of anacondas thirty metres long, and travellers of a tiny fish that swims up into swimmers.

Who acts: tall tales, explorers, tiny fish · What happens: grow, tell, swim up · To what, where: swimmers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tall tales, explorers, tiny fish), 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	Around	around	ADP	_	3 animals	case
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	obl
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tales	amod
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 grow	advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	explorers	explorer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 anacondas	case
12	anacondas	anaconda	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	obl
13	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 metres	nummod
14	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 long	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 anacondas	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 travellers	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 travellers	cc
18	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 fish	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fish	det
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fish	amod
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 travellers	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 swims	nsubj
24	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fish	acl:relcl
25	up	up	ADV	_	24 swims	compound:prt
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 swimmers	case
27	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 swims	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	tall tales		around such animals; fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around animal=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	explorers		of anacondas	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	swim up	present	a tiny fish	swimmers		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into swimmer=Destination

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:1.

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 ×4. 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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