Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 14
Boas and pythons have two small spurs near the tail, the last tiny bits of back legs from the lizards with legs that snakes evolved from.
Who acts: Boas, snakes · What happens: have, evolve · To what, where: two small spurs, tail, lizards
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 (Boas, snakes), 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 | Boas | boa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pythons | cc |
| 3 | pythons | python | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Boas | conj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 spurs | nummod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spurs | amod |
| 7 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 tail | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tail | det |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spurs | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bits | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bits | det |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bits | amod |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bits | amod |
| 15 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spurs | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 legs | case |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 legs | compound |
| 18 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bits | nmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 lizards | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lizards | det |
| 21 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bits | nmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 legs | case |
| 23 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lizards | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 evolved | obl |
| 25 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 evolved | nsubj |
| 26 | evolved | evolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lizards | acl:relcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 evolved | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | 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 | have | present | Boas and pythons | two small spurs | the tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spur=Patient | |||
| 2 | evolve | past | snakes | the lizards with legs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:14.
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 ×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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