Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 10
Diprotodon was the biggest marsupial ever, a pouched relative of wombats the size of a hippo, living in Australia until about 40,000 years ago.
Who acts: Diprotodon, pouched relative · What happens: be, live · To what, where: biggest marsupial, Australia
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 (Diprotodon, pouched 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 | Diprotodon | Diprotodon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 marsupial | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 marsupial | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 marsupial | det |
| 4 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 marsupial | amod |
| 5 | marsupial | marsupial | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 marsupial | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 relative | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 relative | det |
| 9 | pouched | pouch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 relative | amod |
| 10 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marsupial | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wombats | case |
| 12 | wombats | wombat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 relative | nmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 size | det |
| 14 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wombats | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hippo | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hippo | det |
| 17 | hippo | hippo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 size | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 living | punct |
| 19 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 relative | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Australia | case |
| 21 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 living | obl |
| 22 | until | until | ADP | _ | 25 years | case |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 40,000 | advmod |
| 24 | 40,000 | 40000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 19 living | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marsupial | 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 | Diprotodon | the biggest marsupial | ever | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | a pouched relative of wombats and the size of a hippo not said here | Australia | ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location |
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: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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