Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 3

Ankylosaurus was a living tank, covered in bony plates with a heavy club on its tail that could break a predator's leg with one swing.

Who acts: Ankylosaurus, living tank · What happens: be, cover, break · To what, where: living tank, 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 (Ankylosaurus, living tank), 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	5 tank	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tank	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tank	det
4	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tank	amod
5	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 covered	punct
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tank	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 plates	case
9	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plates	amod
10	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 covered	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 club	case
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	7 covered	obl
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	5 tank	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	with	with	ADP	_	27 swing	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 swing	nummod
27	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 break	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tank	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ankylosaurus	a living tank		tree rules
2	cover	participle		a living tank not said here	with a heavy club on tank's tail; in bony plates	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in plate=Theme
3	break	could	a living tank	a predator's leg	with one swing	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent leg=Patient with swing=Instrument

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:3.

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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