Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 7
Quetzalcoatlus stood as tall as a giraffe, with wings about 10 metres across; it walked on all fours and caught small animals on land, and probably vaulted into the air with its strong arms.
Who acts: Quetzalcoatlus, wing · What happens: stand, walk, catch, vault · To what, where: fours, small animals, land, air
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 (Quetzalcoatlus, 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 | Quetzalcoatlus | Quetzalcoatlus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 tall | advmod |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 giraffe | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 giraffe | det |
| 7 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wings | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 wings | case |
| 10 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | obl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 10 | advmod |
| 12 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 metres | nummod |
| 13 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wings | nmod |
| 14 | across | across | ADV | _ | 13 metres | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 walked | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 walked | nsubj |
| 17 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 fours | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 fours | det |
| 20 | fours | four | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 walked | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 caught | cc |
| 22 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 walked | conj |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 animals | amod |
| 24 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 caught | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 caught | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 vaulted | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 vaulted | cc |
| 29 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 30 vaulted | advmod |
| 30 | vaulted | vault | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 walked | conj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 air | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 air | det |
| 33 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 vaulted | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 arms | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 arms | nmod:poss |
| 36 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 arms | amod |
| 37 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 vaulted | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Quetzalcoatlus | as a giraffe; with wings 10 metres; tall property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | wing | all fours | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on four=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | wing not said here | small animals | land | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 4 | vault | past | wing not said here | the air | with wing's strong arms; probably property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination |
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:7.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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