--- title: No snake anywhere near 15 metres long has ever been measured; a rewa… — Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how… · tree and pragmatics description: No snake anywhere near 15 metres long has ever been measured; a reward offered over a hundred years ago for a living snake longer than about 9 metres was reportedly never claimed. 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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: 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:11 # text = No snake anywhere near 15 metres long has ever been measured; a reward offered over a hundred years ago for a living snake longer than about 9 metres was reportedly never claimed. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 11 advmod _ _ 4 near near ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 7 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 11 advmod _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 measured measure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 parataxis _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 ago ago ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 25 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 26 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 31 reportedly reportedly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 claimed claim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33: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** | present · perfect · passive | | no snake | | | ever | anywhere, long *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | | 2 | **offer** | participle | | a reward *not said here* | | | | for a living snake *goal*; ago *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for snake=Goal | | 3 | **not** **claim** *speech: other* | past · passive | | a reward | | | | reportedly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | 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:11`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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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