--- title: Their bodies are full of surprises: a few hundred backbones, two tin… — Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how… · tree and pragmatics description: Their bodies are full of surprises: a few hundred backbones, two tiny spurs left over from the legs of their lizard ancestors, jaws that stretch around an egg wider than the head, and a heart that grows after a big meal. Who acts: bodies, jaws, 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 (bodies, jaws, 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:6 # text = Their bodies are full of surprises: a few hundred backbones, two tiny spurs left over from the legs of their lizard ancestors, jaws that stretch around an egg wider than the head, and a heart that grows after a big 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 surprises surprise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 backbones backbone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 spurs spur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 16 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 over over ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 stretch stretch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 around around ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj 32 wider wide ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 after after ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 . . 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 | **is** | present | posters's bodies | | | | | of surprises and a few hundred backbones and two tiny spurs and jaws; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **leave over** | participle | | two tiny spurs *not said here* | | the legs of posters's lizard ancestors | | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from leg=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **stretch around** | present | jaws | a egg | | | | around *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | present | a heart | | | | after a big meal | | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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