--- title: The Amazon has real giants: the green anaconda, the heaviest snake o… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics description: The Amazon has real giants: the green anaconda, the heaviest snake on Earth, lies in a swamp with only its eyes and nostrils above the water, and the black caiman can grow more than four metres long. Who acts: Amazon, green anaconda, black caiman. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amazon, green anaconda, black caiman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:0 # text = The Amazon has real giants: the green anaconda, the heaviest snake on Earth, lies in a swamp with only its eyes and nostrils above the water, and the black caiman can grow more than four metres long. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson # annotation = 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 anaconda anaconda NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 heaviest heavy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 17 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 swamp swamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 above above ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 caiman caiman NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 39 advmod _ _ 38 than than ADP IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 41 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the Amazon | real giants | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient | | 2 | **lie** | present | the green anaconda | | | a swamp with anaconda's eyes above the water and nostrils | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in swamp=Location | | 3 | **grow** | can | the black caiman | four metres | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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