The reptile house: snakes, sentence 15
The smallest snakes, threadsnakes, are about 10 centimetres long and eat ant and termite larvae; the reticulated python can grow longer than 6 metres.
Who acts: smallest snakes, reticulated python · What happens: be, eat, grow · To what, where: ant
This is a sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: snakes» 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 (smallest snakes, reticulated python), 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 snakes | det |
| 2 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 snakes | amod |
| 3 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 long | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 threadsnakes | punct |
| 5 | threadsnakes | threadsnake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 snakes | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 snakes | punct |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 10 | advmod |
| 9 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 centimetres | nummod |
| 10 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 long | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eat | cc |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | conj |
| 14 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eat | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 larvae | cc |
| 16 | termite | termite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 larvae | compound |
| 17 | larvae | larva | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ant | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 grow | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 python | det |
| 20 | reticulated | reticulate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 python | amod |
| 21 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grow | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 grow | aux |
| 23 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 long | conj |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 grow | advmod |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 metres | case |
| 26 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 metres | nummod |
| 27 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 grow | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the smallest snakes | 10 centimetres obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | the smallest snakes not said here | ant and termite larvae | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | can | the reticulated python | than 6 metres; long property | 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:087-reptile-house-snakes.lesson:15.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.
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