Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 6
Their bodies are full of surprises: a few hundred backbones, two tiny spurs left over from the legs of their lizard ancestors, jaws that stretch around an egg wider than the head, and a heart that grows after a big meal.
Who acts: bodies, jaws, heart · What happens: be, leave over, stretch around, grow · To what, where: two tiny spurs, legs, egg
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 (bodies, jaws, 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 surprises | case |
| 6 | surprises | surprise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 backbones | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 backbones | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 backbones | amod |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 backbones | nummod |
| 11 | backbones | backbone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 surprises | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spurs | punct |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 spurs | nummod |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spurs | amod |
| 15 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 backbones | conj |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 spurs | acl |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 left | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 legs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 legs | det |
| 20 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 left | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 ancestors | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ancestors | compound |
| 24 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 legs | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 jaws | punct |
| 26 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 backbones | conj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 stretch | nsubj |
| 28 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 jaws | acl:relcl |
| 29 | around | around | ADV | _ | 28 stretch | advmod |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 egg | det |
| 31 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stretch | obl |
| 32 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 egg | amod |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 head | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 head | det |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wider | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 heart | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 heart | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 heart | det |
| 39 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | conj |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 grows | nsubj |
| 41 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 heart | acl:relcl |
| 42 | after | after | ADP | _ | 45 meal | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 meal | det |
| 44 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 meal | amod |
| 45 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 grows | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | 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 | is | present | posters's bodies | of surprises and a few hundred backbones and two tiny spurs and jaws; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave over | participle | two tiny spurs not said here | the legs of posters's lizard ancestors | over property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from leg=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | stretch around | present | jaws | a egg | around property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | grow | present | a heart | after a big meal | 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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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