The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 3

They did not chew at all: they stripped leaves and swallowed them, and their huge gut worked like a compost tank, so lunch for a sauropod lasted most of the day.

Who acts: tonnes, huge gut, lunch · What happens: not chew, strip, swallow, work, last · To what, where: leaves, tonnes, most

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 (tonnes, huge gut, lunch), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chew	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chew	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 chew	advmod
4	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 chew	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 stripped	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stripped	nsubj
9	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chew	parataxis
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stripped	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swallowed	cc
12	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stripped	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swallowed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 worked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 worked	cc
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 gut	nmod:poss
17	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gut	amod
18	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 worked	nsubj
19	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 swallowed	conj
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 tank	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tank	det
22	compost	compost	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tank	compound
23	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 worked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lunch	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 lunch	advmod
26	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lasted	nsubj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 sauropod	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 sauropod	det
29	sauropod	sauropod	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lunch	nmod
30	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 worked	parataxis
31	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 lasted	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 day	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 day	det
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 most	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not chew	past · do-support	tonnes = tonne		at all	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at all=Patient
2	strip	past	tonnes = tonne	leaves		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
3	swallow	past	tonnes = tonne not said here	tonnes = tonne		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	work	past	tonnes's huge gut		like a compost tank	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	last	past	lunch for a sauropod	most of the day		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme most=Value

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:3.

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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