Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos, sentence 9

Smilodon, the sabre-toothed cat, had canine teeth about 18 centimetres long and a powerful neck; it was not a tiger but a cat from a separate branch.

Who acts: Smilodon, steppe · What happens: tooth, have, not be · To what, where: canine teeth, tiger

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» 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 (Smilodon, steppe), 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	Smilodon	Smilodon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cat	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
4	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 toothed	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sabre	punct
6	toothed	tooth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cat	amod
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Smilodon	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Smilodon	punct
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	canine	canine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 teeth	amod
11	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 18	advmod
13	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 centimetres	nummod
14	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 long	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 teeth	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 neck	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 neck	det
18	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 neck	amod
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 teeth	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 tiger	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tiger	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tiger	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 tiger	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tiger	det
25	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	parataxis
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 cat	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cat	det
28	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tiger	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 branch	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 branch	det
31	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 branch	amod
32	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cat	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tooth	participle			tree rules
2	have	past	Smilodon	canine teeth and a powerful neck	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
3	not is a	past	steppe	a tiger but a cat from a separate branch	tree rules

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:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants.lesson:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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