Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 12
The name Diprotodon means two forward teeth: two big front teeth stuck forward from its lower jaw, good for biting off plants.
Who acts: name, two big front teeth · What happens: mean, stuck, bite off · To what, where: two forward teeth, lower jaw, plants
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 (name, two big front teeth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | Diprotodon | Diprotodon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 teeth | nummod |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 teeth | amod |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 means | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 stuck | punct |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 teeth | nummod |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 teeth | amod |
| 11 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 teeth | amod |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stuck | nsubj |
| 13 | stuck | stuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 stuck | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 jaw | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 jaw | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 jaw | amod |
| 18 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stuck | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 jaw | amod |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 biting | mark |
| 22 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 good | advcl |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 biting | compound:prt |
| 24 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 biting | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the name | two forward teeth | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stuck | present | two big front teeth | name's lower jaw | forward property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bite off | gerund | two big front teeth not said here | plants | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient |
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:12.
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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