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title: The green anaconda of South America is the heaviest snake; a big fem… — Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: The green anaconda of South America is the heaviest snake; a big female can weigh well over 100 kilograms, and females are much bigger than males. Who acts: green anaconda, big female, females. A sentence of the lesson «Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get» of the bio
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# Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get, sentence 9

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The green anaconda of South America is the heaviest snake; a big female can weigh well over 100 kilograms, and females are much bigger than males.

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**Who acts:** green anaconda, big female, females · **What happens:** be, weigh · **To what, where:** heaviest snake, 100 kilograms

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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 (green anaconda, big female, females), 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:9
# text = The green anaconda of South America is the heaviest snake; a big female can weigh well over 100 kilograms, and females are much bigger than males.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	anaconda	anaconda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	weigh	weigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the green anaconda of South America | the heaviest snake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weigh** | can | a big female | 100 kilograms |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value |
| 3 | **is** | present | females |  |  |  |  | than males; big *property* | 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:9`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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

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