Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 2
The longest snake is the reticulated python of Southeast Asia, and the heaviest is the green anaconda of South America.
Who acts: longest snake, heaviest · What happens: reticulate, be · To what, where: reticulated python, green anaconda
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 (longest snake, heaviest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 2 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 snake | amod |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 python | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 python | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 python | det |
| 6 | reticulated | reticulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 python | amod |
| 7 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Asia | case |
| 9 | Southeast | Southeast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Asia | compound |
| 10 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 python | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 anaconda | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 anaconda | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heaviest | det |
| 14 | heaviest | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 anaconda | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 anaconda | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 anaconda | det |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 anaconda | amod |
| 18 | anaconda | anaconda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 python | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 America | case |
| 20 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 America | compound |
| 21 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 anaconda | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 python | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reticulate | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the longest snake | the reticulated python and the green anaconda | of Southeast Asia | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the heaviest | the green anaconda | of South America | 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:2.
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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