The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 0

The sauropods were the long-necked plant-eaters, the biggest animals that ever walked on land; Diplodocus was about 25 metres long, mostly neck and tail, longer than a tennis court.

Who acts: biggest animals, Diplodocus · What happens: neck, be, walk · To what, where: necked plant eaters, land, 25 metres

This is a sentence of the lesson «The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus» 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 (biggest animals, Diplodocus), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sauropods	det
2	sauropods	sauropod	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eaters	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eaters	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 necked	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct
7	necked	neck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 eaters	amod
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eaters	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 plant	punct
10	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sauropods	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 animals	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 animals	det
13	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 animals	amod
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eaters	appos
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 walked	nsubj
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 walked	advmod
17	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 animals	acl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 land	case
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walked	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 metres	punct
21	Diplodocus	Diplodocus	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 metres	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 metres	cop
23	about	about	ADV	_	24 25	advmod
24	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 metres	nummod
25	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sauropods	conj
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 metres	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 neck	punct
28	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	29 neck	advmod
29	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sauropods	appos
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tail	cc
31	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 neck	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 court	punct
33	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 court	advmod
34	than	than	ADP	_	37 court	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 court	det
36	tennis	tennis	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 court	compound
37	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sauropods	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sauropods	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neck	participle						vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the necked plant eaters				tree rules
3	walk	past	the biggest animals		land	ever		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory
4	is a	past	Diplodocus	25 metres			long property	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:266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods.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. 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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