Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 4

Diego's real kind is Smilodon, an extinct cat whose two upper fangs could be about 28 centimetres long; it was not a tiger but a separate, extinct branch of the cat family.

Who acts: real kind, two upper fangs, kind · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: extinct cat, 28 centimetres, tiger

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 (real kind, two upper fangs, kind), 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	Diego	Diego	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Diego	case
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kind	amod
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cat	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cat	cop
6	Smilodon	Smilodon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cat	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cat	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
9	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cat	amod
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	14 fangs	nmod:poss
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 fangs	nummod
13	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fangs	amod
14	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 centimetres	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 centimetres	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 centimetres	cop
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 28	advmod
18	28	28	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 centimetres	nummod
19	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cat	acl:relcl
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 centimetres	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tiger	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tiger	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tiger	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 tiger	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tiger	det
26	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cat	parataxis
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 branch	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 branch	det
29	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 branch	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 separate	punct
31	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 branch	amod
32	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tiger	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 family	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 family	det
35	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 family	compound
36	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 branch	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cat	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Diego's real kind	a extinct cat		tree rules
2	is a	could	28 centimetres's two upper fangs	28 centimetres	long property	tree rules
3	not is a	past	kind	a tiger but a separate extinct branch of the cat family		tree rules

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:4.

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): no change. 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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