Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 16
A big python can live for months, sometimes over a year, after one large meal, because a cold-blooded animal burns very little energy; its heart and gut grow bigger for a few days to digest the meal.
Who acts: big python, cold blooded animal, heart · What happens: live, burn, grow, digest · To what, where: little energy, meal
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, cold blooded animal, heart), 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 | 5 live | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | aux |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 months | case |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 year | punct |
| 9 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 year | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 meal | punct |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 meal | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 meal | nummod |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 meal | amod |
| 17 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grow | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 burns | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 animal | det |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 animal | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 cold | punct |
| 23 | blooded | blooded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 animal | amod |
| 24 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 burns | nsubj |
| 25 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | advcl |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 little | advmod |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 energy | amod |
| 28 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 burns | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 heart | punct |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 heart | nmod:poss |
| 31 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 grow | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gut | cc |
| 33 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heart | conj |
| 34 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | parataxis |
| 35 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 grow | xcomp |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 days | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 days | det |
| 38 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 days | amod |
| 39 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 grow | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 digest | mark |
| 41 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 grow | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 meal | det |
| 43 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 digest | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | can | a big python | after one large meal; month; year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn | present | a cold blooded animal | little energy | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | animal's heart and gut | day | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | digest | to-infinitive | animal's heart and gut not said here | the meal | tree rules |
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:16.
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): no change. 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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