Dinosaurs and life long ago, sentence 14
Flat, grinding teeth show that an animal ate plants.
Who acts: Flat grinding teeth, animal · What happens: grind, show, eat · To what, where: plants · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs and life long ago» of the world 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 (Flat grinding teeth, animal), 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 | Flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 teeth | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Flat | punct |
| 3 | grinding | grind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 teeth | amod |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 show | nsubj |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 ate | mark |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 animal | det |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ate | nsubj |
| 9 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 show | ccomp |
| 10 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ate | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind | gerund | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | show | present | Flat grinding teeth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | eat | past | a animal | plants | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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:world:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:14.
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.
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