The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 9

Sauropods did not chew; they stripped leaves, swallowed them whole and let their huge gut break the plants down slowly.

Who acts: Sauropods, huge gut · What happens: not chew, strip, swallow, let, break down · To what, where: leaves, sauropods, 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 (Sauropods, huge gut), 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	4 chew	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chew	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 chew	advmod
4	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 stripped	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stripped	nsubj
7	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chew	parataxis
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stripped	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swallowed	punct
10	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stripped	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 swallowed	obj
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 swallowed	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chew	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 gut	nmod:poss
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gut	amod
17	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 break	nsubj
18	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plants	det
20	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 break	obj
21	down	down	ADV	_	18 break	compound:prt
22	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	18 break	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chew	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not chew	past · do-support	Sauropods			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	strip	past	sauropods = sauropod	leaves		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
3	swallow	past	sauropods = sauropod not said here	sauropods = sauropod	whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	let	infinitive	Sauropods not said here			tree rules
5	break down	infinitive	sauropods's huge gut	the plants	slowly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

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:9.

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): no change. 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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