Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 6

The frill was probably for showing off and recognising its own kind, with some protection; it changed shape as the animal grew, like a deer's antlers.

Who acts: frill, elephant, animal · What happens: be, recognise, change, grow · To what, where: own kind, shape

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 (frill, elephant, animal), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frill	det
2	frill	frill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 showing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 showing	cop
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 showing	advmod
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 showing	mark
6	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 showing	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 recognising	cc
9	recognising	recognise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 showing	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 kind	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kind	amod
12	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 recognising	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 protection	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 protection	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 protection	det
16	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 recognising	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 changed	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 changed	nsubj
19	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 showing	parataxis
20	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 changed	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 grew	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 animal	det
23	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grew	nsubj
24	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 changed	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 antlers	punct
26	like	like	ADP	_	30 antlers	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 deer	det
28	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 antlers	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 deer	case
30	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 grew	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 showing	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	past	the frill		probably, show property	tree rules
2	recognise	gerund	the frill not said here	elephant's own kind	with some protection	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus
3	change	past	elephant	shape		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient
4	grow	past	the animal		like a deer's antlers	vn appear-48.1.1 «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:6.

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 ×2. 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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