--- title: The green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world; water holds i… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics description: The green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world; water holds its weight up, and its eyes and nostrils sit on top of its head. Who acts: green anaconda, water, eyes. A sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» of the biology course --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 4 The green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world; water holds its weight up, and its eyes and nostrils sit on top of its head. **Who acts:** green anaconda, water, eyes · **What happens:** be, hold up, sit · **To what, where:** heaviest snake, world, weight, top 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 (green anaconda, water, eyes), 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:4 # text = The green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world; water holds its weight up, and its eyes and nostrils sit on top of its head. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 anaconda anaconda NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 heaviest heavy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 up up ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the green anaconda | the heaviest snake | | the world | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hold up** | present | water | anaconda's weight | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot weight=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | present | anaconda's eyes and nostrils | | | top of anaconda's head | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=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. 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