Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 7

Often scientists have only teeth or a few bones, so they say honestly what they know and what is still a guess, like the true height of the giant ape.

Who acts: scientists · What happens: have, say, know, be · To what, where: teeth, guess · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (scientists), 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	Often	often	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 have	advmod
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 teeth	advmod
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 bones	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bones	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bones	amod
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 teeth	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 say	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
14	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	13 say	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 know	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
17	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 guess	cc
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 guess	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 guess	cop
21	still	still	ADV	_	23 guess	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 guess	det
23	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 know	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 height	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	28 height	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 height	det
27	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 height	amod
28	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 guess	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 ape	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ape	det
31	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ape	amod
32	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 height	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	scientists	teeth or a few bones		often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	scientists = scientist			honestly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present	scientists = scientist				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	is a	present		a guess	still	like the true height of the giant ape	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:7.

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 ×1, 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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