Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 14
Maiasaura, the «good mother lizard», nested in colonies, and nests with babies of different sizes show the young were cared for.
Who acts: Maiasaura, nests · What happens: nest, show, care for · To what, where: colonies, young · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Maiasaura, nests), 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 | Maiasaura | Maiasaura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 nested | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lizard | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lizard | det |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 lizard | punct |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lizard | amod |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lizard | compound |
| 7 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Maiasaura | appos |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 lizard | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nested | punct |
| 10 | nested | nest | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 colonies | case |
| 12 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 nested | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 show | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 show | cc |
| 15 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 show | nsubj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 babies | case |
| 17 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 nests | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sizes | case |
| 19 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sizes | amod |
| 20 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 babies | nmod |
| 21 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 nested | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 young | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cared | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 cared | aux:pass |
| 25 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 show | ccomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 cared | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 cared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nest | past | Maiasaura | colonies | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | present | nests with babies of different sizes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | care for | past · passive | the young | tree rules |
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:14.
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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