The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 8

Brachiosaurus had long front legs and could reach treetops about 12 metres up; some other sauropods probably held their necks more level, sweeping low plants.

Who acts: Brachiosaurus, other sauropods · What happens: have, reach, hold, sweep · To what, where: long front legs, treetops, necks, low plants

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 (Brachiosaurus, other 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	Brachiosaurus	Brachiosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legs	amod
4	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legs	amod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 reach	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 reach	aux
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
9	treetops	treetop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reach	obj
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 12	advmod
11	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 metres	nummod
12	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 up	obl:unmarked
13	up	up	ADV	_	8 reach	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sauropods	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 sauropods	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sauropods	amod
17	sauropods	sauropod	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 held	nsubj
18	probably	probably	ADV	_	19 held	advmod
19	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 necks	nmod:poss
21	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 held	obj
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 level	amod
23	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 necks	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sweeping	punct
25	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 held	advcl
26	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 plants	amod
27	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sweeping	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Brachiosaurus	long front legs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	reach	could	Brachiosaurus not said here	treetops		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent treetop=Theme
3	hold	past	some other sauropods	sauropods's necks and more level	probably property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme
4	sweep	gerund	some other sauropods not said here	low plants		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plant=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:8.

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 ×2. 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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