Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 9
Utahraptor was about 6 metres long and as heavy as a polar bear, and lived earlier than Velociraptor; most raptors were small.
Who acts: Utahraptor, most raptors · What happens: be, live
This is a sentence of the lesson «Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes» 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 (Utahraptor, most raptors), 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 | Utahraptor | utahraptor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 6 | advmod |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 metres | nummod |
| 5 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 long | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heavy | cc |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 heavy | advmod |
| 9 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 long | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 bear | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bear | det |
| 12 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bear | amod |
| 13 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heavy | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lived | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lived | cc |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | conj |
| 17 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 lived | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 Velociraptor | case |
| 19 | Velociraptor | Velociraptor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 earlier | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 small | punct |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 raptors | amod |
| 22 | raptors | raptor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 small | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 small | cop |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 long | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Utahraptor | 6 metres obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Utahraptor not said here | as a polar bear | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | past | Utahraptor not said here | early property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | most raptors | small 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:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor.lesson:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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