Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 10
Ankylosaurus was covered with bony plates in its skin and had a heavy club on its tail that could break a predator's leg.
Who acts: heavy club · What happens: cover, have, break · To what, where: Ankylosaurus, skin, heavy club, tail, leg
This is a sentence of the lesson «Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills» 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 (heavy club), 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 | Ankylosaurus | Ankylosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 covered | aux:pass |
| 3 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 plates | case |
| 5 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plates | amod |
| 6 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 covered | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 skin | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 skin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 covered | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 club | det |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 club | amod |
| 14 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 tail | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tail | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 club | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 break | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 break | aux |
| 20 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 club | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 predator | det |
| 22 | predator | predator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leg | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 predator | case |
| 24 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 break | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | Ankylosaurus | name's skin | with bony plates | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with plate=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | a heavy club | name's tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Patient | ||||
| 3 | break | could | a heavy club | a predator's leg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs.lesson:10.
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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