Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived, sentence 10

Pterosaurs such as Quetzalcoatlus, with a wingspan of about 10 metres, had wings of skin on one long finger and were not dinosaurs; neither were plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs or Dimetrodon.

Who acts: Pterosaurs · What happens: have, not be, be · To what, where: wings, one long finger, dinosaurs, plesiosaurs

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 (Pterosaurs), 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	Pterosaurs	pterosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	nsubj
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	4 Quetzalcoatlus	case
3	as	as	ADP	_	2 such	fixed
4	Quetzalcoatlus	Quetzalcoatlus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pterosaurs	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wingspan	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 wingspan	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wingspan	det
8	wingspan	wingspan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Quetzalcoatlus	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 metres	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 10	advmod
11	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 metres	nummod
12	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wingspan	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 skin	case
17	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wings	nmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 finger	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 finger	nummod
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 finger	amod
21	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dinosaurs	cc
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dinosaurs	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 dinosaurs	advmod
25	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 plesiosaurs	punct
27	neither	neither	ADV	_	29 plesiosaurs	advmod
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 plesiosaurs	cop
29	plesiosaurs	plesiosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dinosaurs	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ichthyosaurs	punct
31	ichthyosaurs	ichthyosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 plesiosaurs	conj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 Dimetrodon	cc
33	Dimetrodon	dimetrodon	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 plesiosaurs	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Pterosaurs such Quetzalcoatlus with a wingspan of 10 metres	wings of skin	one long finger		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	not is a	past	Pterosaurs such Quetzalcoatlus with a wingspan of 10 metres not said here	dinosaurs and plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs or Dimetrodon			tree rules
3	is a	past	Pterosaurs such Quetzalcoatlus with a wingspan of 10 metres not said here	plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs or Dimetrodon		neither 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:075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.lesson:10.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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