Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 1
That was Paraceratherium, a hornless relative of rhinos that browsed on treetops in Asia, including China, about 30 million years ago.
Who acts: That, hornless relative · What happens: be, browse · To what, where: Paraceratherium, treetops
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 (That, hornless relative), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Paraceratherium | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Paraceratherium | cop |
| 3 | Paraceratherium | Paraceratherium | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 relative | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 relative | det |
| 6 | hornless | hornless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 relative | amod |
| 7 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Paraceratherium | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rhinos | case |
| 9 | rhinos | rhino | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 relative | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 browsed | nsubj |
| 11 | browsed | browse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 relative | acl:relcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 treetops | case |
| 13 | treetops | treetop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 browsed | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Asia | case |
| 15 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 browsed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 China | punct |
| 17 | including | include | ADP | _ | 18 China | case |
| 18 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Asia | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 30 | punct |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 30 | advmod |
| 21 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 million | compound |
| 22 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 browsed | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Paraceratherium | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | Paraceratherium | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | browse | past | a hornless relative of rhinos | treetops | in Asia include China; ago property | 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:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.lesson:1.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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