Fossils, sentence 16
The first dinosaur to be scientifically named was Megalosaurus, in England in 1824.
Who acts: first dinosaur · What happens: name, be · To what, where: Megalosaurus, England
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils» of the geography 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 (first dinosaur), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dinosaur | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 dinosaur | amod |
| 3 | dinosaur | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Megalosaurus | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 named | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 named | aux:pass |
| 6 | scientifically | scientifically | ADV | _ | 7 named | advmod |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dinosaur | acl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Megalosaurus | cop |
| 9 | Megalosaurus | Megalosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Megalosaurus | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 England | case |
| 12 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Megalosaurus | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1824 | case |
| 14 | 1824 | 1824 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 Megalosaurus | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Megalosaurus | 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 | name | to-infinitive · passive | the first dinosaur not said here | scientifically property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the first dinosaur | Megalosaurus | England | in 1824 | 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:geography:057-fossils.lesson:16.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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