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title: Pythons, boas and anacondas are the giants of the snake world. — Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pythons, boas and anacondas are the giants of the snake world. Who acts: Pythons. A sentence of the lesson «Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 0

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Pythons, boas and anacondas are the giants of the snake world.

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**Who acts:** Pythons · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** giants

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get» 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 (Pythons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get.lesson:0
# text = Pythons, boas and anacondas are the giants of the snake world.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get.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): no change
1	Pythons	python	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	boas	boa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	anacondas	anaconda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pythons and boas and anacondas | the giants |  |  |  | of the snake world | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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