Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 15

Gigantopithecus is known only from teeth and a few lower jaws, so its size is a guess; it was an orangutan relative often drawn about three metres tall.

Who acts: size, relative · What happens: know, be, draw · To what, where: Gigantopithecus, teeth, guess, orangutan, three metres

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 (size, 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	Gigantopithecus	Gigantopithecus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 known	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 known	aux:pass
3	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 teeth	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 known	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jaws	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 jaws	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 jaws	amod
10	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 jaws	amod
11	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 teeth	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 guess	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	18 guess	advmod
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 size	nmod:poss
15	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 guess	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 guess	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 guess	det
18	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teeth	parataxis
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 orangutan	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 orangutan	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 orangutan	cop
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 orangutan	det
23	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 known	obl
24	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 orangutan	compound
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 drawn	advmod
26	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 relative	acl
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 three	advmod
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 metres	nummod
29	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 drawn	obl
30	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 metres	amod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 known	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive		Gigantopithecus	teeth and a few lower jaws		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	is a	present	jaw's size	a guess			tree rules
3	is a	past	size	a orangutan			tree rules
4	draw	participle	relative not said here	three metres		often property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:15.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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