Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 5

Triceratops had three horns and a big bony frill, weighed as much as an elephant or more, and lived at the same time and place as T. rex.

Who acts: Triceratops · What happens: have, weigh, live · To what, where: three horns, much

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 (Triceratops), 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	Triceratops	triceratops	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 horns	nummod
4	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 frill	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 frill	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 frill	amod
8	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 frill	amod
9	frill	frill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horns	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weighed	punct
11	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weighed	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 elephant	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 elephant	det
16	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weighed	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 more	cc
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 elephant	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lived	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lived	cc
21	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 time	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 time	amod
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lived	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 place	cc
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 time	conj
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 T.	case
29	T.	t.	PROPN	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 lived	obl
30	rex	rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 T.	flat
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Triceratops	three horns and a big bony frill			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
2	weigh	past	Triceratops not said here	much		as a elephant	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value
3	live	past	Triceratops not said here		time	as T.	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:5.

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): R5-strong ×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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