Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 14
Archelon was a sea turtle about 75 million years ago, longer than a car, with four flippers and a leathery shell, like today's leatherback.
Who acts: Archelon · What happens: be · To what, where: sea turtle
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 (Archelon), 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 | Archelon | Archelon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 turtle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turtle | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 turtle | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turtle | compound |
| 5 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 million | advmod |
| 7 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 million | compound |
| 8 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turtle | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 years | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 car | punct |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 car | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 car | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 car | det |
| 15 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turtle | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flippers | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 flippers | case |
| 18 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 flippers | nummod |
| 19 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turtle | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shell | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 shell | det |
| 22 | leathery | leathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shell | amod |
| 23 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flippers | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leatherback | punct |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 leatherback | case |
| 26 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leatherback | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 today | case |
| 28 | leatherback | leatherback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turtle | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turtle | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Archelon | a sea turtle and a car and four flippers and a leathery shell and today's leatherback | year | tree rules |
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:14.
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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