--- title: A big python has a few hundred backbones, often around 300 or more,… — Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how… · tree and pragmatics description: A big python has a few hundred backbones, often around 300 or more, and nearly every one carries a pair of ribs; you have 33 backbones. Who acts: big python, one, you. A sentence of the lesson «Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get» of the biology course of Mova's prim --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 13 A big python has a few hundred backbones, often around 300 or more, and nearly every one carries a pair of ribs; you have 33 backbones. **Who acts:** big python, one, you · **What happens:** have, carry · **To what, where:** few hundred backbones, pair, 33 backbones 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 (big python, one, you), 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:13 # text = A big python has a few hundred backbones, often around 300 or more, and nearly every one carries a pair of ribs; you have 33 backbones. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 python python NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 backbones backbone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 around around ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 28 33 33 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 backbones backbone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **have** | present | a big python | a few hundred backbones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=Patient | | 2 | **carry** | present | every one | a pair of ribs | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | you | 33 backbones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=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. 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:13`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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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