Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived, sentence 13
Ankylosaurus was covered in bony plates, even on its eyelids, and swung a heavy bony tail club that could break a leg bone.
Who acts: heavy bony tail club · What happens: cover, swing, break · To what, where: Ankylosaurus, heavy bony tail club, leg bone
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 (heavy bony tail club), 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 | Ankylosaurus | Ankylosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 covered | aux:pass |
| 3 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 plates | case |
| 5 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plates | amod |
| 6 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 covered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eyelids | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 eyelids | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 eyelids | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyelids | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plates | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swung | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swung | cc |
| 14 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 covered | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 club | det |
| 16 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 club | amod |
| 17 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 club | amod |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 club | compound |
| 19 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swung | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 break | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 break | aux |
| 22 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 club | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bone | det |
| 24 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bone | compound |
| 25 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 break | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | Ankylosaurus | in bony plates and baby's eyelids | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in plate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swing | past | a heavy bony tail club | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent club=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break | could | a heavy bony tail club | a leg bone | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=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:13.
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): no change. 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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