Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms, sentence 3

Films like to show a T. rex racing a jeep and missing you if you stand still, but its heavy legs could not sprint, and its big forward-facing eyes and keen nose would have found you easily.

Who acts: Films, you, heavy legs, big facing eyes · What happens: like, show, race, miss, stand, not sprint · To what, where: T. rex, jeep, you

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 (Films, you, heavy legs, big facing eyes), 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	Films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 show	mark
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 like	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rex	det
6	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rex	compound
7	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	obj
8	racing	race	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 show	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 jeep	det
10	jeep	jeep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 racing	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 missing	cc
12	missing	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 racing	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 missing	obj
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 stand	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 stand	nsubj
16	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 missing	advcl
17	still	still	ADV	_	16 stand	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sprint	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sprint	cc
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 legs	nmod:poss
21	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 legs	amod
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sprint	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sprint	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 sprint	advmod
25	sprint	sprint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 like	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 eyes	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 eyes	cc
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 eyes	nmod:poss
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 eyes	amod
30	forward	forward	ADV	_	32 facing	advmod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 facing	punct
32	facing	face	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 eyes	amod
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 found	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 nose	cc
35	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 nose	amod
36	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eyes	conj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 found	aux
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 found	aux
39	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 sprint	advcl
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 found	obj
41	easily	easily	ADV	_	39 found	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 like	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Films				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	Films not said here	a T. rex			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rex=Recipient clause=Topic
3	race	gerund	Films not said here	a jeep			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jeep=Agent
4	miss	gerund	Films not said here	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	stand a condition, not said to happen	present	you		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not sprint	could	jeep's heavy legs				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	face	gerund				forward property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
8	find	would · perfect	jeep's big facing eyes and keen nose	you		easily property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic

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:3.

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 ×3, R8-pos-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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