Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 6
The longest well-measured anacondas are about seven metres; stories of twenty or thirty metres were never proved, and dried skins stretch and look longer than the snake was.
Who acts: longest measured anacondas, dried skins · What happens: measure, be, not prove, dry, stretch, look · To what, where: seven metres, stories
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 (longest measured anacondas, dried skins), 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 | 6 anacondas | det |
| 2 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 anacondas | amod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 measured | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | measured | measure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 anacondas | amod |
| 6 | anacondas | anaconda | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 metres | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 metres | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 seven | advmod |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 metres | nummod |
| 10 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 stories | punct |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 proved | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 metres | case |
| 14 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 metres | nummod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 thirty | cc |
| 16 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 twenty | conj |
| 17 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stories | nmod |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 proved | aux:pass |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 proved | advmod |
| 20 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 metres | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stretch | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stretch | cc |
| 23 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 skins | amod |
| 24 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stretch | nsubj |
| 25 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 proved | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 look | cc |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stretch | conj |
| 28 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 look | advmod |
| 29 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 32 was | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 snake | det |
| 31 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 was | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 longer | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 metres | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | participle | well property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the longest measured anacondas | seven metres | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not prove | past · passive | stories of twenty metres | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | stretch | present | dried skins | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | look | present | dried skins not said here | long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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