Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 12
Duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus had hundreds of teeth packed together to grind plants.
Who acts: billed dinosaurs · What happens: bill, have, pack, grind · To what, where: hundreds, plants
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 (billed dinosaurs), 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 | Duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 billed | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Duck | punct |
| 3 | billed | bill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dinosaurs | amod |
| 4 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hadrosaurs | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 hadrosaurs | cc |
| 7 | hadrosaurs | hadrosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dinosaurs | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dinosaurs | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 Edmontosaurus | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | Edmontosaurus | Edmontosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hadrosaurs | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 teeth | case |
| 15 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hundreds | nmod |
| 16 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hundreds | acl |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 packed | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 grind | mark |
| 19 | grind | grind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 packed | advcl |
| 20 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 grind | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bill | participle | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | past | billed dinosaurs or hadrosaurs such Edmontosaurus | hundreds of teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pack | participle | hundreds of teeth not said here | together property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grind | to-infinitive | plants | vn carve-21.2-1 «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:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs.lesson:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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