The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 1

The heaviest, like Argentinosaurus, may have weighed 70 tonnes or more, as much as ten elephants, and one of its backbones is taller than a child.

Who acts: heaviest, one · What happens: weigh, be · To what, where: 70 tonnes

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 (heaviest, one), 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 heaviest	det
2	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 weighed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Argentinosaurus	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 Argentinosaurus	case
5	Argentinosaurus	Argentinosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 heaviest	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Argentinosaurus	punct
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 weighed	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 weighed	aux
9	weighed	weigh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 tonnes	nummod
11	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 weighed	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 more	cc
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 tonnes	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 much	punct
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 weighed	advmod
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 elephants	case
18	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 elephants	nummod
19	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 much	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 taller	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 taller	cc
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 taller	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 backbones	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 backbones	nmod:poss
25	backbones	backbone	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 one	nmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 taller	cop
27	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 weighed	conj
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 child	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 child	det
30	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taller	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 weighed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	may · perfect	the heaviest like Argentinosaurus	70 tonnes					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tonne=Value
2	is	present	one of land's backbones					than a child; tall 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:1.

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. 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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