Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 2

A scientist checks a tale by measuring and testing: no anaconda over about seven metres has ever been well measured, and the candiru story rests on a few unclear reports.

Who acts: scientist, candiru story · What happens: check, measure, rest · To what, where: tale, anaconda, few unclear reports

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 (scientist, candiru story), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scientist	det
2	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 checks	nsubj
3	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tale	det
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 checks	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 measuring	mark
7	measuring	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 checks	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 testing	cc
9	testing	testing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 measuring	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 checks	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 anaconda	det
12	anaconda	anaconda	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 measured	nsubj
13	over	over	ADP	_	16 metres	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 seven	advmod
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 metres	nummod
16	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 anaconda	nmod
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 measured	aux
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 measured	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 measured	aux:pass
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 measured	advmod
21	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 checks	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rests	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rests	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 story	det
25	candiru	candiru	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 story	compound
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rests	nsubj
27	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 measured	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	32 reports	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 reports	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 reports	amod
31	unclear	unclear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 reports	amod
32	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 rests	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 checks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	present	a scientist	a tale				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
2	measure	gerund	a scientist not said here					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	measure	present · perfect · passive		no anaconda over seven metres		ever	well property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value
4	rest	present	the candiru story		a few unclear reports			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on report=Location

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:2.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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