--- title: The longest well-measured anacondas are about seven metres; stories… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics description: The longest well-measured anacondas are about seven metres; stories of twenty or thirty metres were never proved, and dried skins stretch and look longer than the snake was. Who acts: longest measured anacondas, dried skins. 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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 (longest measured anacondas, dried skins), 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:6 # text = The longest well-measured anacondas are about seven metres; stories of twenty or thirty metres were never proved, and dried skins stretch and look longer than the snake was. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 measured measure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 anacondas anaconda NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 conj _ _ 17 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 19 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 proved prove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 stretch stretch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 29 than than SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:cop 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **measure** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | the longest measured anacondas | seven metres | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **prove** | past · passive | | stories of twenty metres | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **stretch** | present | dried skins | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **look** | present | dried skins *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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