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.
See the release 0.4.
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