The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 10

Even the giants hatched from eggs about the size of a football, because a much bigger egg would need a shell too thick for the baby to breathe through; a hatchling of a few kilograms grew thousands of times heavier before it was adult.

Who acts: giants, bigger egg, hatchling · What happens: hatch, need, breathe, grew, be · To what, where: shell, thousands, adult

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 (giants, bigger egg, hatchling), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	3 giants	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giants	det
3	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatched	nsubj
4	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 eggs	case
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatched	obl
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 size	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 size	det
9	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hatched	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 football	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 football	det
12	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 size	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 need	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 need	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 egg	det
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 bigger	advmod
17	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 egg	amod
18	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 need	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 need	aux
20	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hatched	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 shell	det
22	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 need	obj
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 thick	advmod
24	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shell	amod
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 breathe	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 baby	det
27	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thick	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 breathe	mark
29	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 baby	acl
30	through	through	ADP	_	29 breathe	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 grew	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hatchling	det
33	hatchling	hatchling	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grew	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 kilograms	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 kilograms	det
36	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 kilograms	amod
37	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hatchling	nmod
38	grew	grew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hatched	parataxis
39	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 grew	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 times	case
41	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 thousands	nmod
42	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 times	conj
43	before	before	SCONJ	_	46 adult	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 adult	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 adult	cop
46	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grew	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hatched	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hatch	past	the giants		about the size of a football; from eggs	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from egg=Patient
2	need	would	a bigger egg	a shell		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shell=Theme
3	breathe	to-infinitive	a bigger egg not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grew	past	a hatchling of a few kilograms	thousands of times		tree rules
5	is a	past	hatchling	adult		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:10.

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, 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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