Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 2

Stegosaurus had two rows of tall thin plates for show and four tail spikes that were a real weapon: one bone of Allosaurus, a big meat-eater, has a hole that a spike fits into exactly.

Who acts: Stegosaurus, four tail spikes, one bone, spike · What happens: have, be, fit · To what, where: two rows, real weapon, hole

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 (Stegosaurus, four tail spikes, one bone, spike), 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	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 rows	nummod
4	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 plates	case
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plates	amod
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plates	amod
8	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rows	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 show	case
10	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plates	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spikes	cc
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 spikes	nummod
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spikes	compound
14	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 show	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 weapon	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 weapon	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 weapon	det
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 weapon	amod
19	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spikes	acl:relcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 bone	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 bone	nummod
22	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 has	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Allosaurus	case
24	Allosaurus	Allosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 bone	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eater	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 eater	det
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eater	amod
28	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eater	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 meat	punct
30	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Allosaurus	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 has	punct
32	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hole	det
34	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 has	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 fits	obl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 spike	det
37	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fits	nsubj
38	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hole	acl:relcl
39	into	into	ADP	_	40 exactly	case
40	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	38 fits	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Stegosaurus	two rows of tall thin plates for show and four tail spikes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient
2	is a	past	four tail spikes	a real weapon		tree rules
3	have	present	one bone of Allosaurus	a hole		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
4	fit	present	a spike	a hole	exactly property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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:2.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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