Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 4

The green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world; water holds its weight up, and its eyes and nostrils sit on top of its head.

Who acts: green anaconda, water, eyes · What happens: be, hold up, sit · To what, where: heaviest snake, world, weight, top

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 (green anaconda, water, eyes), 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	3 anaconda	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 anaconda	amod
3	anaconda	anaconda	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snake	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 snake	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snake	det
6	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 snake	amod
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holds	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snake	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 holds	punct
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holds	nsubj
13	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 weight	nmod:poss
15	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holds	obj
16	up	up	ADV	_	13 holds	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sit	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sit	cc
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sit	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 nostrils	cc
22	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eyes	conj
23	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 holds	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 top	case
25	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sit	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 top	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 snake	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the green anaconda	the heaviest snake	the world	tree rules
2	hold up	present	water	anaconda's weight		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot weight=Theme
3	sit	present	anaconda's eyes and nostrils		top of anaconda's head	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=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:4.

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): R6-punct-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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