Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived, sentence 4

Tyrannosaurus rex lived about 68 to 66 million years ago in western North America, was about 12 metres long and had thick teeth up to about 30 centimetres with the root, able to crush bone.

Who acts: Tyrannosaurus rex, thick teeth · What happens: live, be, have up, crush · To what, where: 68, western North America, 12 metres, thick teeth, 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 (Tyrannosaurus rex, thick teeth), 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	Tyrannosaurus	Tyrannosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rex	compound
2	rex	rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 68	advmod
5	68	68	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 lived	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 66	case
7	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 lived	obl
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ago	obl:unmarked
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 America	case
12	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 America	amod
13	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 America	compound
14	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 metres	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 metres	cop
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 12	advmod
18	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 metres	nummod
19	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 long	obl
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 lived	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
23	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 teeth	amod
24	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	22 had	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 centimetres	case
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 30	advmod
28	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 centimetres	nummod
29	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	parataxis
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 root	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 root	det
32	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 centimetres	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 able	punct
34	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 centimetres	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 crush	mark
36	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	xcomp
37	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 crush	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	Tyrannosaurus rex	68	western North America	to 66; ago, long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location
2	is a	past		12 metres			tree rules
3	have up	past	Tyrannosaurus rex not said here	thick teeth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
4	crush	to-infinitive	thick teeth not said here	bone			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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:4.

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 ×2, 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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