Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 12
Glyptodonts were armadillo relatives as big as a small car, covered in a bony shell that protected them from hunters such as Smilodon.
Who acts: Glyptodonts, bony shell · What happens: be, cover, protect · To what, where: armadillo relatives, glyptodonts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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 (Glyptodonts, bony shell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glyptodonts | glyptodont | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 relatives | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 relatives | cop |
| 3 | armadillo | armadillo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 relatives | compound |
| 4 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 big | advmod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 relatives | amod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 car | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 car | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 car | amod |
| 10 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 big | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 covered | punct |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 relatives | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 shell | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shell | det |
| 15 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shell | amod |
| 16 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covered | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 protected | nsubj |
| 18 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shell | acl:relcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 protected | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 hunters | case |
| 21 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 protected | obl |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 24 Smilodon | case |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 such | fixed |
| 24 | Smilodon | Smilodon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 hunters | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 relatives | punct |
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 a | past | Glyptodonts | armadillo relatives | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | armadillo relatives not said here | in a bony shell | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in shell=Theme | ||||
| 3 | protect | past | a bony shell | glyptodonts = glyptodont | from hunters such Smilodon | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary from hunter=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, 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:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:12.
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. 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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