Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 17
Burmese pythons let go or escaped from people's homes now live wild in the Everglades of Florida, where they have eaten huge numbers of small mammals and birds; the biggest caught there was reported at about 5.5 metres.
Who acts: Burmese pythons, Pythons · What happens: let, go, escape, live, eat, catch · To what, where: Burmese pythons, homes, Everglades, huge numbers, biggest, 5.5 metres
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 (Burmese pythons, Pythons), 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 | Burmese | burmese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pythons | amod |
| 2 | pythons | python | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 escaped | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pythons | acl |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 escaped | cc |
| 6 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 homes | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 homes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 people | case |
| 10 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 escaped | obl |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 live | advmod |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 escaped | conj |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 live | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Everglades | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Everglades | det |
| 16 | Everglades | everglade | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 live | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Florida | case |
| 18 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Everglades | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eaten | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 eaten | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 eaten | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 eaten | aux |
| 23 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 Everglades | acl:relcl |
| 24 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 numbers | amod |
| 25 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eaten | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 mammals | case |
| 27 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mammals | amod |
| 28 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 numbers | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 birds | cc |
| 30 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mammals | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 caught | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 biggest | det |
| 33 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 biggest | acl |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 caught | advmod |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 reported | aux:pass |
| 37 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 escaped | conj |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 metres | case |
| 39 | about | about | ADV | _ | 40 5.5 | advmod |
| 40 | 5.5 | 5.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 metres | nummod |
| 41 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 reported | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 escaped | 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 | let | participle | Burmese pythons not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Burmese pythons not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | escape | past | Burmese pythons | people's homes | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from home=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | live | present | Burmese pythons not said here | the Everglades of Florida | now | wild property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in everglade=Location | ||
| 5 | eat | present · perfect | Pythons = python | huge numbers of small mammals and birds | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | ||||
| 6 | catch | past | there | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | report | past · passive | the biggest | 5.5 metres | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:17.
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. 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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