Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 5
Old posters show 15-metre monsters swallowing canoes, but a reward for a living snake over about 9 metres was reportedly never claimed, and a snake held close to a camera looks far bigger than it is.
Who acts: Old posters, metre monsters, snake · What happens: show, swallow, not claim, hold, look, be · To what, where: metre monsters, canoes, reward, snake
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 (Old posters, metre monsters, snake), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 posters | amod |
| 2 | posters | poster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 metre | nummod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 15 | punct |
| 6 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 monsters | compound |
| 7 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | obj |
| 8 | swallowing | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 monsters | acl |
| 9 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 swallowing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 claimed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 reward | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 reward | det |
| 13 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 claimed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 snake | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 snake | det |
| 16 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 snake | compound |
| 17 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reward | nmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 about | advmod |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 9 | advmod |
| 20 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 metres | nummod |
| 21 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 reward | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 claimed | aux:pass |
| 23 | reportedly | reportedly | ADV | _ | 25 claimed | advmod |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 claimed | advmod |
| 25 | claimed | claim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 show | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 looks | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 looks | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 snake | det |
| 29 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 looks | nsubj |
| 30 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 snake | acl |
| 31 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 held | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 camera | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 camera | det |
| 34 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 held | obl |
| 35 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 claimed | conj |
| 36 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 bigger | advmod |
| 37 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 looks | xcomp |
| 38 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 40 is | mark |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 is | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 bigger | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Old posters | metre monsters | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent monster=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | swallow | gerund | metre monsters not said here | canoes | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not claim speech: other | past · passive | a reward for a living snake 9 metres | reportedly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hold | participle | a snake not said here | to a camera; close property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | present | a snake | big property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | be | present | snake | vn exist-47.1 «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:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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