The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 7
Sauropod bones had air pockets inside, as birds' bones do, which made the skeleton lighter and helped breathing.
Who acts: Sauropod bones, bones · What happens: have, do, make, help, breathe · To what, where: air pockets, skeleton
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 (Sauropod bones, bones), 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 | Sauropod | sauropod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bones | compound |
| 2 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pockets | compound |
| 5 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj | |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bones | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 birds | case |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skeleton | det |
| 17 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | lighter | lighter | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 made | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 helped | cc |
| 20 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | conj |
| 21 | breathing | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 helped | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Sauropod bones | air pockets | inside property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | present | birds's bones | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the skeleton | lighter property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skeleton=Product | ||||
| 4 | help | past | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | breathe | gerund | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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): 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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