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description: The heaviest, like Argentinosaurus, may have weighed 70 tonnes or more, as much as ten elephants, and one of its backbones is taller than a child. Who acts: heaviest, one. A sentence of the lesson «The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus» of the biology co
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# The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 1

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The heaviest, like Argentinosaurus, may have weighed 70 tonnes or more, as much as ten elephants, and one of its backbones is taller than a child.

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**Who acts:** heaviest, one · **What happens:** weigh, be · **To what, where:** 70 tonnes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus» 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 (heaviest, one), 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:1
# text = The heaviest, like Argentinosaurus, may have weighed 70 tonnes or more, as much as ten elephants, and one of its backbones is taller than a child.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Argentinosaurus	Argentinosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	backbones	backbone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh** | may · perfect | the heaviest like Argentinosaurus | 70 tonnes |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tonne=Value |
| 2 | **is** | present | one of land's backbones |  |  |  |  | than a child; tall *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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**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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods.lesson:1`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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