The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 6
Argentinosaurus may have weighed 70 tonnes or more and been about 35 metres long; these sizes are estimates from a few huge bones.
Who acts: Argentinosaurus, sizes · What happens: weigh, be · To what, where: 70 tonnes, 35 metres, estimates, few huge bones
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 (Argentinosaurus, sizes), 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 | Argentinosaurus | Argentinosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 weighed | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 weighed | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 weighed | aux |
| 4 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 tonnes | nummod |
| 6 | tonnes | tonne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weighed | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 more | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 tonnes | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 weighed | cc |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 metres | cop |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 35 | advmod |
| 12 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 metres | nummod |
| 13 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 long | obl |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weighed | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 weighed | punct |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 sizes | det |
| 17 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 estimates | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 estimates | cop |
| 19 | estimates | estimate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weighed | parataxis |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 bones | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bones | det |
| 22 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bones | amod |
| 23 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bones | amod |
| 24 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 estimates | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weighed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh | may · perfect | Argentinosaurus | 70 tonnes | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tonne=Value | ||||
| 2 | is a | participle | 35 metres | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | this sizes | estimates | a few huge bones | 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:6.
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, R7-rel-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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