Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 11

No snake anywhere near 15 metres long has ever been measured; a reward offered over a hundred years ago for a living snake longer than about 9 metres was reportedly never claimed.

What happens: measure, offer, not claim · To what, where: snake, reward

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: 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 measured	nsubj:pass
3	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 measured	advmod
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 metres	case
5	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 metres	nummod
6	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 long	obl
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 measured	advmod
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 measured	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 measured	advmod
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 measured	aux:pass
11	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 claimed	parataxis
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 reward	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 reward	det
14	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 claimed	nsubj:pass
15	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 reward	acl
16	over	over	ADP	_	19 years	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 years	det
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ago	obl:unmarked
20	ago	ago	ADV	_	15 offered	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 snake	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 snake	det
23	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 snake	compound
24	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 offered	obl
25	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 snake	amod
26	than	than	ADP	_	29 metres	case
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 9	advmod
28	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 metres	nummod
29	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 longer	obl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 claimed	aux:pass
31	reportedly	reportedly	ADV	_	33 claimed	advmod
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 claimed	advmod
33	claimed	claim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 measured	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	measure	present · perfect · passive	no snake	ever	anywhere, long property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value
2	offer	participle	a reward not said here		for a living snake goal; ago property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for snake=Goal
3	not claim speech: other	past · passive	a reward		reportedly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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:11.

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, 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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