Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 7
Stegosaurus plates stood in two rows and were probably for display, maybe warmth; they were too thin to be good armour, and its brain was only about the size of a lime.
Who acts: Stegosaurus plates, plates, brain · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: two rows, good armour, size
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 plates, plates, brain), 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 plates | compound |
| 2 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 rows | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 rows | nummod |
| 6 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 display | cc |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 display | cop |
| 9 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 11 display | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 display | case |
| 11 | display | display | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 warmth | punct |
| 13 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 14 warmth | advmod |
| 14 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 display | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 thin | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thin | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thin | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 thin | advmod |
| 19 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 armour | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 armour | cop |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 armour | amod |
| 23 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thin | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 size | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 size | cc |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 brain | nmod:poss |
| 27 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 size | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 size | cop |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 size | advmod |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 32 size | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 size | det |
| 32 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thin | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 lime | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 lime | det |
| 35 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 size | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed hedge=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Stegosaurus plates | two rows | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Stegosaurus plates not said here | for display and warmth; probably property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | plates = plate | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | plates = plate not said here | good armour | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | armour's brain | the size | of a lime; about property | 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:7.
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 ×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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