Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived, sentence 7
Triceratops was a plant-eater about 9 metres long with three horns and a bony frill, living at the same time and place as T. rex; some fossils have healed T. rex bite marks.
Who acts: Triceratops, three horns, fossils · What happens: be, live, heal · To what, where: plant eater, T. bite marks
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 (Triceratops, three horns, fossils), 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 | Triceratops | triceratops | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eater | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 | root | root |
| 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 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 horns | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 horns | nummod |
| 13 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eater | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 frill | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 frill | det |
| 16 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 frill | amod |
| 17 | frill | frill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 horns | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 living | punct |
| 19 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 horns | acl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 living | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 place | cc |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 time | conj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 rex | case |
| 27 | T. | t. | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 rex | nummod |
| 28 | rex | rex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 time | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 healed | punct |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 fossils | det |
| 31 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 healed | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 healed | aux |
| 33 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 eater | parataxis |
| 34 | T. | t. | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 marks | nummod |
| 35 | rex | rex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bite | compound |
| 36 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 marks | compound |
| 37 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 healed | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eater | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Triceratops | a plant eater | with three horns and a bony frill | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | three horns and a bony frill not said here | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | heal | present · perfect | some fossils | T. bite marks | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mark=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:7.
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 ×3. 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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