--- title: The smallest snakes, threadsnakes, are about 10 centimetres long and… — The reptile house: snakes · tree and pragmatics description: The smallest snakes, threadsnakes, are about 10 centimetres long and eat ant and termite larvae; the reticulated python can grow longer than 6 metres. Who acts: smallest snakes, reticulated python. A sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: snakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The reptile house: snakes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/) / 15 # The reptile house: snakes, sentence 15 The smallest snakes, threadsnakes, are about 10 centimetres long and eat ant and termite larvae; the reticulated python can grow longer than 6 metres. **Who acts:** smallest snakes, reticulated python · **What happens:** be, eat, grow · **To what, where:** ant This is a sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: snakes» 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 (smallest snakes, reticulated python), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:087-reptile-house-snakes.lesson:15 # text = The smallest snakes, threadsnakes, are about 10 centimetres long and eat ant and termite larvae; the reticulated python can grow longer than 6 metres. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 087-reptile-house-snakes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 threadsnakes threadsnake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 termite termite NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 larvae larva NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 reticulated reticulate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 python python NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 24 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the smallest snakes | | | | | 10 centimetres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | the smallest snakes *not said here* | ant and termite larvae | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | can | the reticulated python | | | | | than 6 metres; long *property* | 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. 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