Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms, sentence 15
Stegosaurus lived about 150 million years ago, so more time separates Stegosaurus from T. rex than separates T. rex from us.
Who acts: Stegosaurus, more time · What happens: live, separate · To what, where: Stegosaurus, T. rex
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 (Stegosaurus, more time), 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 | Stegosaurus | Stegosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 million | advmod |
| 4 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 million | compound |
| 5 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 lived | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 separates | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 separates | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 separates | nsubj |
| 12 | separates | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 13 | Stegosaurus | Stegosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 separates | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 rex | case |
| 15 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 rex | compound |
| 16 | rex | rex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 separates | obl |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 separates | mark |
| 18 | separates | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 separates | advcl |
| 19 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 rex | compound |
| 20 | rex | rex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 separates | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 separates | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Stegosaurus | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | separate | present | more time | Stegosaurus | from T. rex | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent stegosaurus=Patient from rex=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | separate | present | more time not said here | T. rex | from us | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rex=Patient from we=Co-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:265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms.lesson:15.
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 ×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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