Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 12

Until about one or two thousand years ago Madagascar had giant lemurs as big as gorillas, and elephant birds, the heaviest birds ever, with eggs bigger than a rugby ball.

Who acts: Madagascar · What happens: have · To what, where: giant lemurs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa» 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 (Madagascar), 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	Until	until	ADP	_	7 years	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 one	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 two	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	conj
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obl
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 years	advmod
9	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lemurs	amod
12	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 big	advmod
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lemurs	amod
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 gorillas	case
16	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 big	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 birds	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 birds	cc
19	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 birds	compound
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lemurs	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 birds	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 birds	det
23	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 birds	amod
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 birds	conj
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 birds	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bigger	punct
27	with	with	SCONJ	_	29 bigger	mark
28	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bigger	nsubj
29	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 birds	acl
30	than	than	ADP	_	33 ball	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 ball	det
32	rugby	rugby	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ball	compound
33	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bigger	obl
34	.	.	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	Madagascar	giant lemurs and elephant birds and the heaviest birds			year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemur=Patient

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:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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