Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 3
Cartoons show snakes crushing bones like a garden hose tied in knots; a real anaconda squeezes until the prey's blood stops flowing, and it is a shy animal that mostly avoids people.
Who acts: Cartoons, snakes, real anaconda, blood, anaconda, shy animal · What happens: show, crush, tie, squeeze, stop, flow · To what, where: snakes, bones, garden hose, knots, shy animal, people
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 (Cartoons, snakes, real anaconda, blood), 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | nsubj |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obj |
| 4 | crushing | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 snakes | acl |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crushing | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 hose | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hose | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hose | compound |
| 9 | hose | hose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bones | nmod |
| 10 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hose | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 knots | case |
| 12 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tied | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 squeezes | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 anaconda | det |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 anaconda | amod |
| 16 | anaconda | anaconda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 squeezes | nsubj |
| 17 | squeezes | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | conj |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 stops | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prey | det |
| 20 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blood | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 prey | case |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stops | nsubj |
| 23 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 squeezes | advcl |
| 24 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 stops | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 squeezes | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 animal | cc |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 animal | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 animal | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 animal | det |
| 30 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 animal | amod |
| 31 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 squeezes | conj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 avoids | nsubj |
| 33 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 34 avoids | advmod |
| 34 | avoids | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 animal | acl:relcl |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 avoids | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Cartoons | snakes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent snake=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | crush | gerund | snakes not said here | bones | like a garden hose | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | |||
| 3 | tie | participle | a garden hose not said here | knots | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | squeeze | present | a real anaconda | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stop | present | the prey's blood | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | flow | gerund | the prey's blood not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | anaconda | a shy animal | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | avoid | present | a shy animal | people | mostly property | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=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:3.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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