Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 3

Islands play tricks with size: on Sicily and Crete elephants shrank to the size of a pony, while on other islands small animals grew big, like the Komodo dragon.

Who acts: Islands, elephants, small animals · What happens: play, shrink, grow · To what, where: tricks, Sicily, other 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 (Islands, elephants, small animals), 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	Islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	nsubj
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 size	case
5	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Sicily	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Sicily	case
8	Sicily	Sicily	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 shrank	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Crete	cc
10	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sicily	conj
11	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shrank	nsubj
12	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 play	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 size	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 size	det
15	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shrank	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 pony	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pony	det
18	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 size	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grew	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 grew	mark
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 islands	case
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 islands	amod
23	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 grew	obl
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 animals	amod
25	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 grew	nsubj
26	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shrank	conj
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grew	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dragon	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 dragon	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dragon	det
31	Komodo	Komodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 dragon	compound
32	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grew	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 play	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	present	Islands	tricks		with size	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with size=Co-Agent
2	shrink	past	elephants		Sicily and Crete	to the size of a pony result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to size=Result
3	grow	past	small animals		other islands	like the Komodo dragon; big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=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:3.

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): no change. 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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