--- title: The sauropods were the long-necked plant-eaters, the biggest animals… — The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosauru… · tree and pragmatics description: The sauropods were the long-necked plant-eaters, the biggest animals that ever walked on land; Diplodocus was about 25 metres long, mostly neck and tail, longer than a tennis court. Who acts: biggest animals, Diplodocus. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (biggest animals, Diplodocus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods.lesson:0 # text = The sauropods were the long-necked plant-eaters, the biggest animals that ever walked on land; Diplodocus was about 25 metres long, mostly neck and tail, longer than a tennis court. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sauropods sauropod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 necked neck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 8 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 16 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 17 advmod _ _ 17 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 Diplodocus Diplodocus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 26 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 34 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 tennis tennis NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **neck** | participle | | | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | | the necked plant eaters | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **walk** | past | the biggest animals | | | land | ever | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory | | 4 | **is a** | past | Diplodocus | 25 metres | | | | long *property* | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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