--- title: Anacondas live mostly in swamps and slow rivers, where the water hel… — Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how… · tree and pragmatics description: Anacondas live mostly in swamps and slow rivers, where the water helps hold up their heavy bodies. Who acts: Anacondas, water. 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 t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get/10/) [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/) / [Big snakes: pythons, boas and anaconda…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get/) / 10 # Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 10 Anacondas live mostly in swamps and slow rivers, where the water helps hold up their heavy bodies. **Who acts:** Anacondas, water · **What happens:** live, help, hold up · **To what, where:** swamps, heavy bodies 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 (Anacondas, water), 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:10 # text = Anacondas live mostly in swamps and slow rivers, where the water helps hold up their heavy bodies. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Anacondas anaconda NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 swamps swamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 14 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Anacondas | | | swamps and slow rivers | | mostly *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in swamp=Location | | 2 | **help** | present | the water | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **hold up** | infinitive | the water *not said here* | anacondas's heavy bodies | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot body=Theme | 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:321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get.lesson:10`. **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 ×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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