--- title: A scientist checks a tale by measuring and testing: no anaconda over… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics description: A scientist checks a tale by measuring and testing: no anaconda over about seven metres has ever been well measured, and the candiru story rests on a few unclear reports. Who acts: scientist, candiru story. A sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Amazon giants and tall tales: anaconda…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/) / 2 # Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 2 A scientist checks a tale by measuring and testing: no anaconda over about seven metres has ever been well measured, and the candiru story rests on a few unclear reports. **Who acts:** scientist, candiru story · **What happens:** check, measure, rest · **To what, where:** tale, anaconda, few unclear reports This is a sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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 (scientist, candiru story), 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:2 # text = A scientist checks a tale by measuring and testing: no anaconda over about seven metres has ever been well measured, and the candiru story rests on a few unclear reports. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 measuring measure VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 testing testing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 anaconda anaconda NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 13 over over ADP IN _ 16 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 15 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 17 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 18 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 21 advmod _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 aux:pass _ _ 20 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 21 measured measure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 candiru candiru NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 26 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 rests rest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 unclear unclear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 33 . . 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 | **check** | present | a scientist | a tale | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | | 2 | **measure** | gerund | a scientist *not said here* | | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **measure** | present · perfect · passive | | no anaconda over seven metres | | | ever | well *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | | 4 | **rest** | present | the candiru story | | | a few unclear reports | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on report=Location | 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:2`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Amazon giants and tall tales: anaconda…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/1/) - next →: [Amazon giants and tall tales: anaconda…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/)