Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 4
Some scientists think a warmer world helped these giants grow so big, but that is still argued.
Who acts: scientists, warmer world, giants · What happens: think, help, grow, argue · To what, where: giants, that · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (scientists, warmer world, giants), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 scientists | det |
| 2 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 5 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 world | amod |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helped | nsubj |
| 7 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 giants | det |
| 9 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 helped | obj |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helped | xcomp |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 big | advmod |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grow | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 argued | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 argued | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 argued | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 argued | aux:pass |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 argued | advmod |
| 18 | argued | argue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 think | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | some scientists | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | past | a warmer world | this giants | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent giant=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | this giants not said here | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | argue speech: disagree | present · passive | that | still | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
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:4.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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