Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 0
Toy boxes and cartoons call every big old reptile a dinosaur, but scientists have a rule: a dinosaur stood with its legs straight under its body, not sprawled out to the side like a lizard's.
Who acts: Toy boxes, scientists, dinosaur · What happens: call, have, stand, not sprawl out · To what, where: big old reptile, rule, body · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» 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 (Toy boxes, scientists, dinosaur), 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 | Toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boxes | compound |
| 2 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 call | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cartoons | cc |
| 4 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 boxes | conj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 reptile | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reptile | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reptile | amod |
| 9 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dinosaur | det |
| 11 | dinosaur | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 14 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 call | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rule | det |
| 17 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 dinosaur | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dinosaur | det |
| 20 | dinosaur | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rule | appos |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dinosaur | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 legs | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 legs | nmod:poss |
| 24 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stood | obl |
| 25 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 28 body | advmod |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 body | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 body | nmod:poss |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sprawled | punct |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 sprawled | advmod |
| 31 | sprawled | sprawl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 body | acl |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 sprawled | compound:prt |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 side | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 side | det |
| 35 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sprawled | obl |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 38 lizard | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 lizard | det |
| 38 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sprawled | obl |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 lizard | case |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Toy boxes and cartoons | every big old reptile | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reptile=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | scientists | a rule | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | a dinosaur not said here | dinosaur's body | with dinosaur's legs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under body=Location | |||
| 4 | not sprawl out | participle | dinosaur's body not said here | to the side; like a lizard | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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