Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 6
A pterosaur wing was skin stretched from a very long fourth finger.
Who acts: pterosaur wing · What happens: be, stretch · To what, where: skin, long fourth finger
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 (pterosaur wing), 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 | 3 wing | det |
| 2 | pterosaur | pterosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wing | compound |
| 3 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skin | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 skin | cop |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 skin | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 finger | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 finger | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 finger | amod |
| 11 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 finger | amod |
| 12 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretched | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 wing | skin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stretch | participle | skin not said here | a long fourth finger | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from finger=Location |
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:6.
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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