Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 0
Imagine one piece of a snake's backbone bigger than your fist.
Who acts: you · What happens: imagine · To what, where: one piece
This is a sentence of the lesson «Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises» 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 (you), 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 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 piece | nummod |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imagine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 backbone | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 backbone | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 snake | case |
| 8 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | nmod |
| 9 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 piece | amod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 fist | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fist | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bigger | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | one piece of a snake's backbone | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=Theme |
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:383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×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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