--- title: An anaconda kills by squeezing until the prey's blood stops flowing,… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics description: An anaconda kills by squeezing until the prey's blood stops flowing, not by crushing bones. Who acts: anaconda, blood. 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 with its dependency tree an --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 5 An anaconda kills by squeezing until the prey's blood stops flowing, not by crushing bones. **Who acts:** anaconda, blood · **What happens:** kill, squeeze, stop, flow, not crush · **To what, where:** bones 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 (anaconda, blood), 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:5 # text = An anaconda kills by squeezing until the prey's blood stops flowing, not by crushing bones. # 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 ×4 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 anaconda anaconda NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 squeezing squeeze VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 6 until until SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 by by SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 crushing crush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 17 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | present | a anaconda | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **squeeze** | gerund | a anaconda *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** | present | the prey's blood | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **flow** | gerund | the prey's blood *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **crush** | gerund | a anaconda *not said here* | bones | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | 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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