The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 9
Fossils, tests and careful counting beat cartoons and myths, from the Flintstones riding dinosaurs to elephants scared of mice.
Who acts: Fossils, Flintstones · What happens: beat, ride, scare · To what, where: cartoons, dinosaurs, elephants
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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 (Fossils, Flintstones), 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 | Fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beat | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tests | punct |
| 3 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fossils | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 counting | cc |
| 5 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 counting | amod |
| 6 | counting | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fossils | conj |
| 7 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beat | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 myths | cc |
| 10 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cartoons | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 riding | punct |
| 12 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 15 riding | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Flintstones | det |
| 14 | Flintstones | flintstone | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 riding | nsubj |
| 15 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Fossils | acl |
| 16 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 riding | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 elephants | case |
| 18 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 riding | obl |
| 19 | scared | scare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 elephants | acl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mice | case |
| 21 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scared | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | Fossils and tests and careful counting | cartoons and myths | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cartoon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | gerund | the Flintstones | dinosaurs | to elephants | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme to elephant=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | scare | participle | elephants not said here | of mice | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
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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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