Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived, sentence 9
Velociraptor lived in Mongolia about 75 million years ago, was about the size of a turkey and had feathers; a 1971 fossil shows one locked in a fight with a Protoceratops.
Who acts: Velociraptor, 1971 fossil · What happens: live, be, have, show, lock · To what, where: Mongolia, size, feathers, one, fight
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 (Velociraptor, 1971 fossil), 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 | Velociraptor | velociraptor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Mongolia | case |
| 4 | Mongolia | Mongolia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 million | advmod |
| 6 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 million | compound |
| 7 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 lived | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 size | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 size | cop |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 size | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 size | det |
| 14 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 turkey | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 turkey | det |
| 17 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 size | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | conj |
| 20 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 shows | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fossil | det |
| 23 | 1971 | 1971 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 fossil | nummod |
| 24 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shows | nsubj |
| 25 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 shows | obj |
| 27 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 one | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 fight | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fight | det |
| 30 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 locked | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 Protoceratops | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 Protoceratops | det |
| 33 | Protoceratops | protoceratops | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fight | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | 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 | live | past | Velociraptor | Mongolia | ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mongolia=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Velociraptor not said here | the size | of a turkey; about property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | past | Velociraptor not said here | feathers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | ||||
| 4 | show | present | a 1971 fossil | one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | lock | participle | a fight with a Protoceratops | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:9.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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