Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 2

Other mammal giants came later: a wombat-like animal the size of a hippo in Australia, a beaver as big as a black bear in North America, and a giant ape in the forests of southern China.

Who acts: Other mammal giants · What happens: come

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 (Other mammal giants), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 giants	amod
2	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 giants	compound
3	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 came	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 animal	det
8	wombat	wombat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animal	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animal	amod
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 giants	appos
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 size	det
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animal	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 hippo	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hippo	det
16	hippo	hippo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 size	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Australia	case
18	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hippo	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beaver	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 beaver	det
21	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animal	conj
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 big	advmod
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beaver	amod
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 bear	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bear	det
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bear	amod
27	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 big	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 America	case
29	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 America	compound
30	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 bear	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ape	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ape	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 ape	det
34	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ape	amod
35	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animal	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 forests	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 forests	det
38	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 ape	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 China	case
40	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 China	amod
41	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 forests	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Other mammal giants					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:2.

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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