Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 13

The giant beaver of North America was about two metres long, lived until about 12,000 years ago and is reported to have eaten mostly water plants, so it may not have built dams.

Who acts: giant beaver, beaver · What happens: be, live, report, eat, not build · To what, where: water plants, dams

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 (giant beaver, beaver), 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	3 beaver	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beaver	amod
3	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 long	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 America	case
5	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 America	compound
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 beaver	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 long	cop
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 two	advmod
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 metres	nummod
10	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 long	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 long	conj
14	until	until	ADP	_	17 years	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 12,000	advmod
16	12,000	12,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ago	obl:unmarked
18	ago	ago	ADV	_	13 lived	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 reported	cc
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 reported	aux:pass
21	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 long	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 eaten	mark
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 eaten	aux
24	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 reported	xcomp
25	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	24 eaten	advmod
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plants	compound
27	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 eaten	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dams	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	34 built	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 built	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 built	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 built	advmod
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 built	aux
34	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 lived	parataxis
35	dams	dam	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 built	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant beaver of North America		two metres obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
2	live	past	the giant beaver of North America not said here		ago property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	report	present · passive	the giant beaver of North America not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive · perfect	the giant beaver of North America not said here	water plants	mostly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
5	not build	may · perfect	beaver	dams		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material dam=Product

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:13.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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