Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 2
A pterosaur's wing was skin stretched from one hugely long fourth finger, and the biggest, Quetzalcoatlus, stood as tall as a giraffe and strode about on all fours like a giant stork.
Who acts: wing, biggest · What happens: be, stretch, stand, stride · To what, where: skin, one long fourth finger, fours
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 (wing, biggest), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pterosaur | det |
| 2 | pterosaur | pterosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wing | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 pterosaur | case |
| 4 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skin | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 skin | cop |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 skin | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 finger | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 finger | nummod |
| 10 | hugely | hugely | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 finger | amod |
| 12 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 finger | amod |
| 13 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretched | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stood | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 biggest | det |
| 17 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Quetzalcoatlus | punct |
| 19 | Quetzalcoatlus | Quetzalcoatlus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 biggest | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Quetzalcoatlus | punct |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 skin | parataxis |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 tall | advmod |
| 23 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stood | xcomp |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 giraffe | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 giraffe | det |
| 26 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tall | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 strode | cc |
| 28 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stood | conj |
| 29 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 strode | advmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 fours | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 fours | det |
| 32 | fours | four | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 strode | obl |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 stork | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 stork | det |
| 35 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 stork | amod |
| 36 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 strode | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 skin | 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 | a pterosaur's wing | skin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stretch | participle | skin not said here | one long fourth finger | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from finger=Location | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the biggest | tall property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stride | past | the biggest not said here | all fours | like a giant stork; about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on four=Trajectory |
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:2.
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): R5-strong ×1. 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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