Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 15
On islands such as Sicily and Crete elephants became pony-sized, because with little food and no big hunters, small bodies did better.
Who acts: elephants, small bodies · What happens: become, do · To what, where: islands
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 (elephants, small bodies), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 islands | case |
| 2 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 became | obl |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 Sicily | case |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 such | fixed |
| 5 | Sicily | Sicily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 islands | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Crete | cc |
| 7 | Crete | Crete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sicily | conj |
| 8 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 became | nsubj |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sized | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 pony | punct |
| 12 | sized | size | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 became | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 did | mark |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 food | case |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 food | amod |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 did | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hunters | cc |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 hunters | det |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hunters | amod |
| 21 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 food | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 food | punct |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bodies | amod |
| 24 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 did | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 became | advcl |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 did | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | elephants | islands such Sicily and Crete | size property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | past | small bodies | with little food and no big hunters; good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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): 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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