Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 8
Some ground sloths were enormous: Megatherium was as big as an elephant, stood on its back legs to reach leaves and walked on the sides of its clawed feet.
Who acts: ground sloths, Megatherium · What happens: be, stand, reach, walk, claw · To what, where: back legs, leaves, sides
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 (ground sloths, Megatherium), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 sloths | det |
| 2 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sloths | compound |
| 3 | sloths | sloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 enormous | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enormous | cop |
| 5 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 big | punct |
| 7 | Megatherium | Megatherium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 big | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 big | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 big | advmod |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 enormous | parataxis |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 elephant | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 elephant | det |
| 13 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 big | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 big | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 legs | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 legs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 legs | compound |
| 19 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stood | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 reach | mark |
| 21 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stood | advcl |
| 22 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 reach | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 walked | cc |
| 24 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enormous | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 sides | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sides | det |
| 27 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 walked | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 feet | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 feet | nmod:poss |
| 30 | clawed | claw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 feet | amod |
| 31 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sides | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enormous | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | some ground sloths | enormous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Megatherium | as a elephant; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Megatherium not said here | elephant's back legs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | ||||
| 4 | reach | to-infinitive | Megatherium not said here | leaves | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | ||||
| 5 | walk | past | some ground sloths not said here | the sides of elephant's clawed feet | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | claw | participle | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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