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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 (Old posters, metre monsters, snake), 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:5 # text = Old posters show 15-metre monsters swallowing canoes, but a reward for a living snake over about 9 metres was reportedly never claimed, and a snake held close to a camera looks far bigger than it is. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 posters poster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 monsters monster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 swallowing swallow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 canoes canoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 over over ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 23 reportedly reportedly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 claimed claim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 26 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 30 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 31 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 camera camera NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 36 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 37 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 xcomp _ _ 38 than than SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Old posters | | metre monsters | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent monster=Recipient | | 2 | **swallow** | gerund | metre monsters *not said here* | canoes | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient | | 3 | **not** **claim** *speech: other* | past · passive | | a reward for a living snake 9 metres | | | | reportedly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **hold** | participle | | a snake *not said here* | | | | to a camera; close *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **look** | present | a snake | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **be** | present | snake | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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