Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 8

Paraceratherium was a hornless relative of rhinos in Asia, including China, about 30 million years ago, as heavy as three or four elephants and one of the biggest land mammals ever.

Who acts: Paraceratherium · What happens: be · To what, where: hornless 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 (Paraceratherium), 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	Paraceratherium	Paraceratherium	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 relative	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 relative	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 relative	det
4	hornless	hornless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 relative	amod
5	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 rhinos	case
7	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 relative	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Asia	case
9	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rhinos	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 China	punct
11	including	include	ADP	_	12 China	case
12	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Asia	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 years	punct
14	about	about	ADV	_	16 million	advmod
15	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 million	compound
16	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ago	obl:unmarked
18	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 Asia	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heavy	punct
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 heavy	advmod
21	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 relative	amod
22	as	as	ADP	_	26 elephants	case
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 elephants	nummod
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 four	cc
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 three	conj
26	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 heavy	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 one	cc
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 elephants	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 mammals	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mammals	det
31	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 mammals	amod
32	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mammals	compound
33	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 one	nmod
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 mammals	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 relative	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Paraceratherium	a hornless relative				of rhinos	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:8.

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 ×2. 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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