Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 13

A big python has a few hundred backbones, often around 300 or more, and nearly every one carries a pair of ribs; you have 33 backbones.

Who acts: big python, one, you · What happens: have, carry · To what, where: few hundred backbones, pair, 33 backbones

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 (big python, one, you), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 python	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 python	amod
3	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 backbones	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 backbones	amod
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 backbones	nummod
8	backbones	backbone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 300	punct
10	often	often	ADV	_	12 300	advmod
11	around	around	ADV	_	12 300	advmod
12	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 backbones	appos
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 more	cc
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 300	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carries	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 carries	cc
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	19 one	advmod
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carries	nsubj
20	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pair	det
22	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carries	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 ribs	case
24	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pair	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
28	33	33	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 backbones	nummod
29	backbones	backbone	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	a big python	a few hundred backbones	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=Patient
2	carry	present	every one	a pair of ribs	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
3	have	present	you	33 backbones	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=Patient

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:13.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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