Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 0

After the dinosaurs, the world grew new giants: terror birds taller than a man with beaks like axes, moas taller than a basketball hoop, and a hornless rhino as heavy as several elephants.

Who acts: world · What happens: grow · To what, where: new giants

This is a sentence of the lesson «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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 (world), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 dinosaurs	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dinosaurs	det
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grew	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dinosaurs	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 giants	amod
9	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grew	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 birds	punct
11	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 birds	compound
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 giants	appos
13	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 birds	amod
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taller	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 beaks	case
18	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 man	nmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 axes	case
20	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 beaks	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 moas	punct
22	moas	moa	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 birds	conj
23	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 moas	amod
24	than	than	ADP	_	27 hoop	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hoop	det
26	basketball	basketball	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hoop	compound
27	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 taller	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rhino	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rhino	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 rhino	det
31	hornless	hornless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rhino	amod
32	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 birds	conj
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 heavy	advmod
34	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rhino	amod
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 elephants	case
36	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 elephants	amod
37	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 rhino	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grew	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	grow	past	the world	new giants			after the dinosaurs		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=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:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:0.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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