Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 15
Woolly mammoths were mammals with fur that fed their babies milk; they lived until about 4,000 years ago and never met dinosaurs.
Who acts: Woolly mammoths, fur, mammoths · What happens: be, feed, live, not meet · To what, where: mammals, babies milk, 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 (Woolly mammoths, fur, mammoths), 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 | Woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mammoths | amod |
| 2 | mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mammals | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mammals | cop |
| 4 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 fur | case |
| 6 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mammals | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fed | nsubj |
| 8 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fur | acl:relcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 milk | nmod:poss |
| 10 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 milk | compound |
| 11 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fed | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mammals | parataxis |
| 15 | until | until | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 4,000 | advmod |
| 17 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lived | obl |
| 19 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 years | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 met | cc |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 met | advmod |
| 22 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lived | conj |
| 23 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 met | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mammals | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Woolly mammoths | mammals | with fur | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feed | past | fur | mammoths's babies milk | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | past | mammoths = mammoth | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not meet | past | mammoths = mammoth not said here | dinosaurs | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Co-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:15.
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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