The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 15

A giraffe has 7 neck bones and a sauropod had 12 to 19; unrelated animals finding the same answer to reaching high food is called convergence.

Who acts: giraffe, sauropod · What happens: have, find, reach, call · To what, where: 7 neck bones, 12, same answer, high food, unrelated animals · 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 (giraffe, sauropod), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 giraffe	det
2	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 bones	nummod
5	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bones	compound
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sauropod	det
9	sauropod	sauropod	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
11	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 had	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 19	case
13	19	19	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 12	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 animals	punct
15	unrelated	unrelated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animals	amod
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 called	nsubj
17	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 called	csubj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 finding	obj
21	to	to	SCONJ	_	22 reaching	mark
22	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 answer	acl
23	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 food	amod
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reaching	obj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 called	aux:pass
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 has	parataxis
27	convergence	convergence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 called	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a giraffe	7 neck bones		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	have	past	a sauropod	12	to 19	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 12=Patient
3	find	gerund		the same answer		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic
4	reach	gerund		high food		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent food=Theme
5	call speech: assert	present · passive		unrelated animals		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:15.

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. 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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