Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 8

Plesiosaurs were sea reptiles with four flippers that died out 66 million years ago; a fossil mother with a baby inside shows they gave birth in the sea.

Who acts: Plesiosaurs, four flippers, fossil mother · What happens: be, die out, show, give · To what, where: sea reptiles, birth, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Plesiosaurs, four flippers, fossil mother), 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	Plesiosaurs	plesiosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reptiles	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reptiles	cop
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reptiles	compound
4	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 flippers	case
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 flippers	nummod
7	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reptiles	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 died	nsubj
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flippers	acl:relcl
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 died	advmod
11	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 million	compound
12	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ago	obl:unmarked
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 died	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 reptiles	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mother	det
17	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mother	compound
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shows	nsubj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 baby	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 baby	det
21	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mother	nmod
22	inside	inside	ADV	_	21 baby	advmod
23	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reptiles	parataxis
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	nsubj
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shows	ccomp
26	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reptiles	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	is a	past	Plesiosaurs	sea reptiles		with four flippers	tree rules
2	die out	past	four flippers			ago, out property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	show	present	a fossil mother with a baby				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	past	plesiosaurs = plesiosaur	birth	the sea		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme

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:8.

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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