Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 17

Deinotherium was an elephant relative with two tusks growing from its lower jaw, pointing down and back; nobody is sure what they were for.

Who acts: Deinotherium, two tusks, nobody · What happens: be, grow, point · To what, where: elephant relative

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 (Deinotherium, two tusks, nobody), 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	Deinotherium	Deinotherium	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 relative	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 relative	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 relative	det
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 relative	compound
5	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 tusks	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 tusks	nummod
8	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 elephant	nmod
9	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 tusks	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 jaw	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 jaw	nmod:poss
12	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 jaw	amod
13	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 growing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pointing	punct
15	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 growing	conj
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 pointing	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 back	cc
18	back	back	ADV	_	16 down	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 sure	punct
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 sure	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sure	cop
22	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 relative	parataxis
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 sure	ccomp
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 were	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	25 were	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 relative	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 a	past	Deinotherium	a elephant relative		tree rules
2	grow	gerund	two tusks not said here		from relative's lower jaw	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from jaw=Patient
3	point	gerund	two tusks not said here		down property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	nobody		sure 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:17.

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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