Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms, sentence 0

Tyrannosaurus rex lived about 68 to 66 million years ago in western North America, and a grown one was about 12 metres long and as tall at the hips as a double-decker bus.

Who acts: Tyrannosaurus rex, grown one · What happens: live, grow, be · To what, where: western North America, hips

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms» 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 (Tyrannosaurus rex, grown one), 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	Tyrannosaurus	Tyrannosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rex	compound
2	rex	rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 68	advmod
5	68	68	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 66	case
7	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 68	nmod
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ago	obl:unmarked
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 America	case
12	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 America	amod
13	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 America	compound
14	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 long	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 long	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 one	det
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 long	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 long	cop
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 12	advmod
22	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 metres	nummod
23	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 long	obl:unmarked
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lived	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tall	cc
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 tall	advmod
27	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 long	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 hips	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hips	det
30	hips	hip	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tall	obl
31	as	as	ADP	_	36 bus	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bus	det
33	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 decker	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 double	punct
35	decker	decker	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bus	compound
36	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tall	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	Tyrannosaurus rex	western North America	ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location
2	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	a grown one		12 metres obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
4	be		a grown one not said here	the hips	as a decker bus	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:265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms.lesson:0.

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, R8-pos-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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