--- title: Burmese pythons let go or escaped from people's homes now live wild… — Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how… · tree and pragmatics description: Burmese pythons let go or escaped from people's homes now live wild in the Everglades of Florida, where they have eaten huge numbers of small mammals and birds; the biggest caught there was reported at about 5.5 metres. Who acts: Burmese pythons, Pythons. 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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 (Burmese pythons, 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:17 # text = Burmese pythons let go or escaped from people's homes now live wild in the Everglades of Florida, where they have eaten huge numbers of small mammals and birds; the biggest caught there was reported at about 5.5 metres. # 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 1 Burmese burmese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pythons python NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 let let VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 12 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Everglades everglade PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 acl:relcl _ _ 24 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl _ _ 35 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:expl|HaikuPos=PRON:EX:PronType=Dem 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 about about ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 5.5 5.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **let** | participle | | Burmese pythons *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | Burmese pythons *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **escape** | past | Burmese pythons | | | people's homes | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from home=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **live** | present | Burmese pythons *not said here* | | | the Everglades of Florida | now | wild *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in everglade=Location | | 5 | **eat** | present · perfect | Pythons *= python* | huge numbers of small mammals and birds | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | | 6 | **catch** | past | | | | there | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **report** | past · passive | | the biggest | | 5.5 metres | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:17`. **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. **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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