Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 10
Anacondas live mostly in swamps and slow rivers, where the water helps hold up their heavy bodies.
Who acts: Anacondas, water · What happens: live, help, hold up · To what, where: swamps, heavy bodies
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get» 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 (Anacondas, water), 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 | Anacondas | anaconda | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 2 live | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 swamps | case |
| 5 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rivers | cc |
| 7 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rivers | amod |
| 8 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swamps | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 helps | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 helps | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 helps | nsubj |
| 13 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swamps | acl:relcl |
| 14 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 helps | xcomp |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 hold | compound:prt |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bodies | amod |
| 18 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hold | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Anacondas | swamps and slow rivers | mostly property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in swamp=Location | |||
| 2 | help | present | the water | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold up | infinitive | the water not said here | anacondas's heavy bodies | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot body=Theme |
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:321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get.lesson:10.
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. 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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