Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 0
Picture an animal so tall that a giraffe could almost walk under its belly.
Who acts: you, giraffe · What happens: picture, walk · To what, where: animal, belly
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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, giraffe), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 tall | advmod |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 walk | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 giraffe | det |
| 8 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walk | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 walk | aux |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 walk | advmod |
| 11 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tall | advcl |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 belly | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 belly | nmod:poss |
| 14 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walk | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a animal | tall property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | could | a giraffe | giraffe's belly | almost property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under belly=Trajectory |
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:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.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): 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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