Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 14

The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones.

Who acts: largest fliers · What happens: have, be · To what, where: wings

This is a sentence of the lesson «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» 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 (largest fliers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fliers	det
2	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 fliers	amod
3	fliers	flier	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 fliers	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pterosaurs	punct
6	pterosaurs	pterosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fliers	appos
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 Quetzalcoatlus	case
8	Quetzalcoatlus	Quetzalcoatlus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pterosaurs	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 10	advmod
13	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 metres	nummod
14	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wings	nmod:unmarked
15	across	across	ADV	_	14 metres	advmod
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 light	cc
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 light	cop
18	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 had	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bones	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 bones	case
21	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bones	amod
22	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 light	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the largest fliers	wings 10 metres					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	is	past	the largest fliers not said here					with hollow bones; light property	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:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson:14.

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. 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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