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title: The longest snake is the reticulated python of Southeast Asia, and t… — Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: The longest snake is the reticulated python of Southeast Asia, and the heaviest is the green anaconda of South America. Who acts: longest snake, heaviest. 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 wi
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# Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 2

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The longest snake is the reticulated python of Southeast Asia, and the heaviest is the green anaconda of South America.

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**Who acts:** longest snake, heaviest · **What happens:** reticulate, be · **To what, where:** reticulated python, green anaconda

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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 (longest snake, heaviest), 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:2
# text = The longest snake is the reticulated python of Southeast Asia, and the heaviest is the green anaconda of South America.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	reticulated	reticulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	python	python	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
14	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	anaconda	anaconda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reticulate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the longest snake | the reticulated python and the green anaconda |  |  |  | of Southeast Asia | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the heaviest | the green anaconda |  |  |  | of South America | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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