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title: The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings a… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones. Who acts: largest fliers. A sentence of the lesson «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w
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# Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 14

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The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones.

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**Who acts:** largest fliers · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** wings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» 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 (largest fliers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson:14
# text = The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	fliers	flier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pterosaurs	pterosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Quetzalcoatlus	Quetzalcoatlus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
13	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	across	across	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the largest fliers | wings  10 metres |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the largest fliers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with hollow bones; light *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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 ×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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