Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 9

The green anaconda of South America is the heaviest snake; a big female can weigh well over 100 kilograms, and females are much bigger than males.

Who acts: green anaconda, big female, females · What happens: be, weigh · To what, where: heaviest snake, 100 kilograms

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 (green anaconda, big female, females), 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 anaconda	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 anaconda	amod
3	anaconda	anaconda	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snake	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 America	case
5	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 America	compound
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 anaconda	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	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 snake	amod
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 weigh	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 female	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 female	amod
14	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 weigh	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 weigh	aux
16	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 snake	parataxis
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 100	advmod
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 kilograms	case
19	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 kilograms	nummod
20	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 weigh	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bigger	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 females	cc
23	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bigger	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bigger	cop
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 bigger	advmod
26	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 snake	conj
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 males	case
28	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bigger	obl
29	.	.	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 green anaconda of South America	the heaviest snake		tree rules
2	weigh	can	a big female	100 kilograms		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value
3	is	present	females		than males; big property	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:9.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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