Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived, sentence 15

Compsognathus was about 1 metre long including its tail, and the feathered Microraptor was about the size of a crow, with feathers on its arms and legs.

Who acts: Compsognathus, feathered Microraptor · What happens: be · To what, where: 1 metre, size

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 (Compsognathus, feathered Microraptor), 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	Compsognathus	compsognathus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 metre	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 metre	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 1	advmod
4	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 metre	nummod
5	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 metre	advmod
7	including	include	ADP	_	9 tail	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tail	nmod:poss
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 long	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 size	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 size	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Microraptor	det
13	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Microraptor	amod
14	Microraptor	Microraptor	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 size	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 size	cop
16	about	about	ADV	_	18 size	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 size	det
18	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 metre	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 crow	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 crow	det
21	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 size	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 legs	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 feathers	case
24	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 crow	nmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 arms	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 arms	nmod:poss
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 feathers	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 legs	cc
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 arms	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 metre	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	Compsognathus	1 metre and the size				long property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the feathered Microraptor	the size				of a crow with feathers on Microraptor's arms and legs; about 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:15.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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