Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms, sentence 9
T. rex arms were short, about as long as a man's arm, but strong, with two fingers; scientists still argue what they were for.
Who acts: rex arms, scientists · What happens: be, argue
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 (rex arms, scientists), 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 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rex | compound |
| 2 | rex | rex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arms | compound |
| 3 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 short | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 short | cop |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 short | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 arm | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arm | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 man | case |
| 14 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 long | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 strong | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 strong | cc |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 short | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fingers | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 fingers | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 fingers | nummod |
| 21 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 short | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 argue | punct |
| 23 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 argue | nsubj |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 argue | advmod |
| 25 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 short | parataxis |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 argue | obj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 were | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 what | acl:relcl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 were | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 short | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | rex arms | with two fingers; long, short property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | rex arms not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | present | scientists | still | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=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:9.
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): no change. 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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