Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 14

Dinosaurs had legs straight under the body, which shows as a hole in the hip socket; flying and swimming reptiles do not count as dinosaurs.

Who acts: Dinosaurs, body, reptiles · What happens: have, show, fly, swim, not count · To what, where: legs, body

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 (Dinosaurs, body, reptiles), 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	Dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 body	advmod
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 body	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 body	det
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shows	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 shows	nsubj
10	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 body	acl:relcl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 hole	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hole	det
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shows	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 socket	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 socket	det
16	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 socket	compound
17	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hole	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 count	punct
19	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 count	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 swimming	cc
21	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 flying	conj
22	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 count	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 count	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 count	advmod
25	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 dinosaurs	case
27	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 count	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Dinosaurs	legs	the body		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	show	present	the body			as a hole in the hip socket	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	swim	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not count	present · do-support	reptiles			as dinosaurs	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as dinosaur=Attribute

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:14.

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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