Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 14

Paraceratherium, a hornless rhino of Asia, was about 5 metres tall at the shoulder, ate leaves from treetops and was the biggest land mammal ever.

Who acts: Paraceratherium · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: shoulder, leaves, treetops, biggest land mammal

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 (Paraceratherium), 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	Paraceratherium	Paraceratherium	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tall	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rhino	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rhino	det
4	hornless	hornless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rhino	amod
5	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Paraceratherium	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Asia	case
7	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rhino	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Paraceratherium	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tall	cop
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 5	advmod
11	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 metres	nummod
12	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tall	obl:unmarked
13	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ate	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 shoulder	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shoulder	det
16	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tall	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ate	punct
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ate	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 treetops	case
21	treetops	treetop	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 leaves	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 mammal	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mammal	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mammal	det
25	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 mammal	amod
26	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mammal	compound
27	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ate	conj
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 mammal	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tall	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Paraceratherium		the shoulder		5 metres obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules
2	eat	past		leaves	treetops			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
3	is a	past		the biggest land mammal		ever		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:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:14.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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