The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 5

Sauropods were long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs and the biggest animals ever to walk on land; Diplodocus was about 25 metres long, mostly neck and tail.

Who acts: Sauropods, Diplodocus · What happens: neck, eat, be, walk · To what, where: necked eating dinosaurs, land

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 (Sauropods, Diplodocus), 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	Sauropods	sauropod	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dinosaurs	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dinosaurs	cop
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 necked	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
5	necked	neck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 dinosaurs	amod
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 plant	punct
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 dinosaurs	amod
9	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 animals	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 animals	det
12	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 animals	amod
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dinosaurs	conj
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 walk	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 walk	mark
16	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 animals	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 land	case
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walk	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 metres	punct
20	Diplodocus	Diplodocus	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 long	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 long	cop
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 25	advmod
23	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 metres	nummod
24	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 long	obl:unmarked
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dinosaurs	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 neck	punct
27	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	28 neck	advmod
28	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 long	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tail	cc
30	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 neck	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dinosaurs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neck	participle						vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	gerund						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Sauropods	necked eating dinosaurs and the biggest animals				tree rules
4	walk	to-infinitive	Sauropods not said here		land	ever		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory
5	is	past	Diplodocus				25 metres obl:unmarked; neck and tail obl; long property	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:5.

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, R7-rel-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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