--- title: A big python can live for months, sometimes over a year, after one l… — Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how… · tree and pragmatics description: A big python can live for months, sometimes over a year, after one large meal, because a cold-blooded animal burns very little energy; its heart and gut grow bigger for a few days to digest the meal. Who acts: big python, cold blooded animal, heart. 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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 (big python, cold blooded animal, heart), 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:16 # text = A big python can live for months, sometimes over a year, after one large meal, because a cold-blooded animal burns very little energy; its heart and gut grow bigger for a few days to digest the meal. # 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 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 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 12 advmod _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 16 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 21 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 blooded blooded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 gut gut NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 35 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 xcomp _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | can | a big python | | | | after one large meal; month; year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **burn** | present | a cold blooded animal | little energy | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present | animal's heart and gut | | | | day | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **digest** | to-infinitive | animal's heart and gut *not said here* | the meal | | | | | tree rules | 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:16`. **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. 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