Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived, sentence 12

All dinosaurs hatched from eggs; even the biggest eggs were only about the size of a football, because a much bigger egg would need a shell too thick for the baby to break out, and Maiasaura, the good mother lizard, nested in colonies and seems to have fed its young.

Who acts: dinosaurs, biggest eggs, bigger egg, baby, Maiasaura · What happens: hatch, be, need, break out, nest, seem · To what, where: shell, colonies, young

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 (dinosaurs, biggest eggs, bigger egg, baby), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 dinosaurs	det
2	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hatched	nsubj
3	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 eggs	case
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hatched	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 size	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 eggs	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eggs	det
9	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 eggs	amod
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 size	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 size	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	15 size	advmod
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 size	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 size	det
15	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hatched	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 football	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 football	det
18	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 size	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 need	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 need	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 egg	det
22	much	much	ADV	_	23 bigger	advmod
23	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 egg	amod
24	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 need	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 need	aux
26	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 size	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 shell	det
28	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 need	obj
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 thick	advmod
30	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shell	amod
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 break	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 baby	det
33	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 break	nsubj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 break	mark
35	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 thick	advcl
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 break	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Maiasaura	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Maiasaura	cc
39	Maiasaura	Maiasaura	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 nested	nsubj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 lizard	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 lizard	det
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 lizard	amod
43	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lizard	compound
44	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Maiasaura	appos
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 nested	punct
46	nested	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 size	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 colonies	case
48	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 nested	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 seems	cc
50	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 nested	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	53 fed	mark
52	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 fed	aux
53	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 seems	xcomp
54	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 young	nmod:poss
55	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 fed	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hatched	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hatch	past	all dinosaurs			from eggs	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from egg=Patient
2	is	past	the biggest eggs			about the size; of a football	tree rules
3	need	would	a bigger egg	a shell			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shell=Theme
4	break out	to-infinitive	the baby				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	nest	past	Maiasaura		colonies		vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	seem	present	Maiasaura not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	feed	to-infinitive · perfect	Maiasaura not said here	baby's young			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Recipient

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:12.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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