The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 4

Old pictures put Brontosaurus in a lake to hold up its weight, but footprints and leg bones show sauropods walked on dry land, often in groups with the young in the middle.

Who acts: footprints, sauropods · What happens: put, hold up, show, walk · To what, where: Old pictures, lake, weight, dry land · 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 (footprints, sauropods), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pictures	amod
2	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	nsubj:pass
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Brontosaurus	Brontosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hold	mark
9	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 put	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 hold	compound:prt
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 weight	nmod:poss
12	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hold	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 show	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 show	cc
15	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 show	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bones	cc
17	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bones	compound
18	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 footprints	conj
19	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
20	sauropods	sauropod	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 walked	nsubj
21	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 show	ccomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 land	case
23	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 land	amod
24	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 walked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 groups	punct
26	often	often	ADV	_	28 groups	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 groups	case
28	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 walked	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 young	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 young	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 groups	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 middle	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 middle	det
34	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 young	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	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	put	past · passive		Old pictures	a lake		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset brontosaurus=Goal
2	hold up	to-infinitive		lake's weight			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot weight=Theme
3	show	present	footprints and leg bones				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	walk	past	sauropods		dry land	in groups with the young in the middle	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory

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:4.

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): R6-punct-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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