The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 13

Trackways show some sauropods walked in groups, with young ones in the middle; footprints are trace fossils that show behaviour.

Who acts: Trackways, sauropods, footprints, trace fossils · What happens: show, walk, be · To what, where: groups, trace fossils, behaviour · 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 (Trackways, sauropods, footprints, trace fossils), 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	Trackways	trackway	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 sauropods	det
4	sauropods	sauropod	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walked	nsubj
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 show	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 groups	case
7	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ones	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 ones	case
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walked	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 middle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ones	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 fossils	punct
16	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fossils	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fossils	cop
18	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fossils	compound
19	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	parataxis
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 show	nsubj
21	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fossils	acl:relcl
22	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 show	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 show	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	Trackways				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk	past	some sauropods		groups	with young ones in the middle	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Trajectory
3	is a	present	footprints	trace fossils			tree rules
4	show	present	trace fossils	behaviour			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent behaviour=Recipient

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:13.

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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