Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 8

The reticulated python of Southeast Asia is the longest snake; the longest reliably measured ones were about 7 metres, though stories claim far more.

Who acts: reticulated python, measured ones, stories · What happens: be, measure, claim · To what, where: longest snake, 7 metres, more

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 (reticulated python, measured ones, stories), 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 python	det
2	reticulated	reticulate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 python	amod
3	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snake	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Asia	case
5	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Asia	compound
6	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 python	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 snake	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snake	det
9	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 snake	amod
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 metres	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ones	det
13	longest	long	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 reliably	advmod
14	reliably	reliably	ADV	_	15 measured	advmod
15	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ones	amod
16	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 metres	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 metres	cop
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 7	advmod
19	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 metres	nummod
20	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 snake	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 claim	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 claim	mark
23	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 claim	nsubj
24	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 snake	parataxis
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 claim	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 snake	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the reticulated python of Southeast Asia	the longest snake		tree rules
2	measure	participle			reliably property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	the measured ones	7 metres		tree rules
4	claim speech: other	present	stories	more		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic

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:8.

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): 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.

See the release 0.4.

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