Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 10
A big snake has a few hundred backbone pieces, nearly each with a pair of ribs; you have 33 backbone pieces and 24 ribs.
Who acts: big snake, you · What happens: have · To what, where: few hundred backbone pieces, 33 backbone pieces
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 (big snake, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 snake | amod |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pieces | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pieces | amod |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pieces | nummod |
| 8 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | compound |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 each | punct |
| 11 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 each | advmod |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 pieces | appos |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 pair | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pair | det |
| 15 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 each | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ribs | case |
| 17 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pair | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | parataxis |
| 21 | 33 | 33 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 pieces | nummod |
| 22 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pieces | compound |
| 23 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 have | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ribs | cc |
| 25 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 ribs | nummod |
| 26 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pieces | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a big snake | a few hundred backbone pieces | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | 33 backbone pieces and 24 ribs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
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:10.
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): 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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