Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 1
So the flying pterosaurs and the swimming plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, even though they lived at the same time.
Who acts: flying pterosaurs, pterosaurs · What happens: fly, not be, live · To what, where: dinosaurs
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 (flying pterosaurs, pterosaurs), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 15 dinosaurs | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pterosaurs | det |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 pterosaurs | amod |
| 4 | pterosaurs | pterosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dinosaurs | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 plesiosaurs | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plesiosaurs | det |
| 7 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plesiosaurs | compound |
| 8 | plesiosaurs | plesiosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pterosaurs | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mosasaurs | punct |
| 10 | mosasaurs | mosasaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pterosaurs | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ichthyosaurs | cc |
| 12 | ichthyosaurs | ichthyosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pterosaurs | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dinosaurs | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 dinosaurs | advmod |
| 15 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lived | punct |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 lived | advmod |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 lived | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dinosaurs | advcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lived | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 dinosaurs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not is a | past | the flying pterosaurs and the swimming plesiosaurs and mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs | dinosaurs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | pterosaurs = pterosaur | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.lesson:1.
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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