Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived, sentence 1

Stand under the open jaws of a T. rex skull in the museum and you see a bone-crusher: teeth like bananas and one of the strongest bites of any land animal that ever lived, but arms only about a metre long.

Who acts: you, land animal, arms · What happens: stand, see, live, metre, bite · To what, where: open jaws, bone crusher, land animal

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived» 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 (you, land animal, arms), 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	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	5 jaws	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jaws	det
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 jaws	amod
5	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stand	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 skull	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 skull	det
8	T.	t.	PROPN	_	9 rex	compound
9	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skull	compound
10	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jaws	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 museum	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 museum	det
13	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skull	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
16	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 crusher	det
18	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crusher	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 bone	punct
20	crusher	crusher	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 teeth	punct
22	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 crusher	appos
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 bananas	case
24	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 teeth	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 one	cc
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 teeth	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 bites	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bites	det
29	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 bites	amod
30	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 animal	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 animal	det
33	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 animal	compound
34	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bites	nmod
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 lived	nsubj
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 lived	advmod
37	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 animal	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 metre	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 metre	cc
40	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 metre	nsubj
41	only	only	ADV	_	44 metre	advmod
42	about	about	ADV	_	44 metre	advmod
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 metre	det
44	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	conj
45	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 metre	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stand	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here		the open jaws of a rex skull in the museum			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under jaw=Location
2	see	present	you	a bone crusher				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crusher=Stimulus
3	live	past	any land animal			ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	metre		arms				about, long property	tree rules
5	bite			any land animal				nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient

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:075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.lesson:1.

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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