Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived, sentence 6

Stegosaurus was a plant-eater about 9 metres long that lived about 150 million years ago, with two rows of bony back plates and four tail spikes; the idea of a second brain in its hips is a myth.

Who acts: Stegosaurus, plant eater, idea · What happens: be, live · To what, where: plant eater, myth

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 (Stegosaurus, plant eater, idea), 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	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eater	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eater	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eater	det
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eater	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 plant	punct
6	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 myth	conj
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 9	advmod
8	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 metres	nummod
9	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 long	obl
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eater	amod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eater	acl:relcl
13	about	about	ADV	_	15 million	advmod
14	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 million	compound
15	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ago	obl:unmarked
17	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 lived	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rows	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 rows	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 rows	nummod
21	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lived	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 plates	case
23	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 plates	amod
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plates	compound
25	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rows	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 spikes	cc
27	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 spikes	nummod
28	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spikes	compound
29	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 plates	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 idea	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 idea	det
32	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 myth	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 brain	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 brain	det
35	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 brain	amod
36	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 idea	nmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 hips	case
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hips	nmod:poss
39	hips	hip	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 brain	nmod
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 myth	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 myth	det
42	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eater	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Stegosaurus	a plant eater		tree rules
2	live	past	a plant eater		with two rows of bony back plates and four tail spikes; ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with row=Location
3	is a	present	the idea of a second brain in metre's hips	a myth and a plant eater		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:6.

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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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