The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 12
In 1903 Brontosaurus was judged to be the same as Apatosaurus, but a 2015 study said it was different enough to be its own kind again.
Who acts: 2015 study, study · What happens: judge, be, say · To what, where: Brontosaurus, 1903, own kind · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (2015 study, study), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1903 | case |
| 2 | 1903 | 1903 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 judged | obl |
| 3 | Brontosaurus | Brontosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 judged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 judged | aux:pass |
| 5 | judged | judge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 same | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 same | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 same | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 judged | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 Apatosaurus | case |
| 11 | Apatosaurus | Apatosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 same | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 study | det |
| 15 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 study | nummod |
| 16 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 judged | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 different | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 different | cop |
| 20 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 different | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 kind | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 kind | cop |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 kind | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 kind | amod |
| 26 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 different | advcl |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 kind | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 judged | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | past · passive | Brontosaurus | 1903 | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | as Apatosaurus; same property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a 2015 study | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | study | different, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | study not said here | study's own kind | again | 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:12.
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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