--- title: Even the giants hatched from eggs about the size of a football, beca… — The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosauru… · tree and pragmatics description: Even the giants hatched from eggs about the size of a football, because a much bigger egg would need a shell too thick for the baby to breathe through; a hatchling of a few kilograms grew thousands of times heavier before it was adult. Who acts: giants, bigger egg, hatchling. 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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 (giants, bigger egg, hatchling), 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:10 # text = Even the giants hatched from eggs about the size of a football, because a much bigger egg would need a shell too thick for the baby to breathe through; a hatchling of a few kilograms grew thousands of times heavier before it was adult. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Even even ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hatched hatch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 much much ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 too too ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 through through ADP IN _ 29 obl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hatchling hatchling NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 38 grew grew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 39 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 42 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 41 conj _ _ 43 before before SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 46 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hatch** | past | the giants | | | | | about the size of a football; from eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from egg=Patient | | 2 | **need** | would | a bigger egg | a shell | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shell=Theme | | 3 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | a bigger egg *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grew** | past | a hatchling of a few kilograms | thousands of times | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | hatchling | adult | | | | | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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