Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms, sentence 6

A grown T. rex was about 12 metres long; its biggest teeth, root included, were about 30 centimetres long and kept being replaced all its life.

Who acts: grown T. rex, root · What happens: grow, be, include, keep, replace · To what, where: biggest teeth, life

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 (grown T. rex, root), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rex	det
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rex	amod
3	T.	t.	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rex	compound
4	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 long	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 long	cop
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 12	advmod
7	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 metres	nummod
8	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 long	obl:unmarked
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 kept	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 teeth	punct
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
12	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 teeth	amod
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rex	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 included	punct
15	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 included	nsubj
16	included	include	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 teeth	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rex	punct
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 long	cop
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 30	advmod
20	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 centimetres	nummod
21	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 long	obl:unmarked
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 long	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 long	cc
24	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 replaced	aux:pass
26	replaced	replace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 kept	xcomp
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 life	det:predet
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 replaced	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 kept	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a grown T. rex and teenager's biggest teeth		12 metres obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
3	include	participle	root	teenager's biggest teeth not said here		vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
4	is	past	a grown T. rex and teenager's biggest teeth not said here		30 centimetres obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
5	keep	past				tree rules
6	replace	gerund · passive		teenager's life		vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: life=Co-Theme

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:6.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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