Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 10

Arthropleura was a millipede relative as long as a car that lived in the coal forests and probably ate plants; the coal we burn comes from those forests.

Who acts: Arthropleura, car, we, coal · What happens: be, live, eat, burn, come · To what, where: millipede relative, coal forests, plants, coal, forests

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 (Arthropleura, car, we, coal), 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	Arthropleura	Arthropleura	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 relative	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 relative	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 relative	det
4	millipede	millipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 relative	compound
5	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 relative	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 car	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 car	det
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 long	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 car	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 forests	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forests	det
15	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forests	compound
16	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lived	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ate	cc
18	probably	probably	ADV	_	19 ate	advmod
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lived	conj
20	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ate	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 comes	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 coal	det
23	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 comes	nsubj
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 burn	nsubj
25	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 coal	acl:relcl
26	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 relative	parataxis
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 forests	case
28	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 forests	det
29	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 comes	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 relative	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Arthropleura	a millipede relative		long property	tree rules
2	live	past	a car		the coal forests		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
3	eat	past	a car not said here	plants		probably property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
4	burn	present	we	the coal not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme
5	come	present	the coal		that forests		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial_Location

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:10.

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): 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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