Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 8

The idea that Stegosaurus had a second brain in its hip is a myth; the space there held nerves and perhaps energy-rich tissue, as in birds' hips today.

Who acts: Stegosaurus, idea, space · What happens: have, be, hold · To what, where: second brain, hip, myth, nerves

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, idea, space), 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 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 myth	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 idea	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 brain	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 brain	amod
8	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hip	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hip	nmod:poss
11	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brain	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 myth	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 myth	det
14	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 myth	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 space	det
17	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 held	nsubj
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 space	advmod
19	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 myth	parataxis
20	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 held	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tissue	cc
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	26 tissue	advmod
23	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tissue	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 energy	punct
25	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tissue	amod
26	tissue	tissue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nerves	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 birds	punct
28	as	as	ADP	_	32 hips	case
29	in	in	ADP	_	28 as	fixed
30	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hips	nmod:poss
31	'	's	PART	_	30 birds	case
32	hips	hip	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 held	obl
33	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hips	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 myth	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Stegosaurus	a second brain	brain's hip		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
2	is a	present	the idea	a myth			tree rules
3	hold	past	the space	nerves and energy rich tissue		as birds's hips	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nerve=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:8.

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, 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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