--- title: Around such animals tall tales grow fast: explorers told of anaconda… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics description: Around such animals tall tales grow fast: explorers told of anacondas thirty metres long, and travellers of a tiny fish that swims up into swimmers. Who acts: tall tales, explorers, tiny fish. 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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 (tall tales, explorers, tiny fish), 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:1 # text = Around such animals tall tales grow fast: explorers told of anacondas thirty metres long, and travellers of a tiny fish that swims up into swimmers. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Around around ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 4 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 explorers explorer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 anacondas anaconda NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked 15 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 travellers traveller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 up up ADV RB _ 24 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod 26 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 swimmers swimmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | tall tales | | | | | around such animals; fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around animal=Location | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | explorers | | | | | of anacondas | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **swim up** | present | a tiny fish | | | swimmers | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into swimmer=Destination | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Amazon giants and tall tales: anaconda…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/0/) - next →: [Amazon giants and tall tales: anaconda…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/)