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title: In 1903 Brontosaurus was judged to be the same as Apatosaurus, but a… — The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosauru… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1903 Brontosaurus was judged to be the same as Apatosaurus, but a 2015 study said it was different enough to be its own kind again. Who acts: 2015 study, study. A sentence of the lesson «The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus» of the biology course of 
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# The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 12

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In 1903 Brontosaurus was judged to be the same as Apatosaurus, but a 2015 study said it was different enough to be its own kind again.

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**Who acts:** 2015 study, study · **What happens:** judge, be, say · **To what, where:** Brontosaurus, 1903, own kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (2015 study, study), 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:12
# text = In 1903 Brontosaurus was judged to be the same as Apatosaurus, but a 2015 study said it was different enough to be its own kind again.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1903	1903	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Brontosaurus	Brontosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	judged	judge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Apatosaurus	Apatosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
21	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **judge** | past · passive |  | Brontosaurus |  | 1903 |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as Apatosaurus; same *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a 2015 study |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | study |  |  |  |  | different, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | study *not said here* | study's own kind |  |  | again |  | 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): 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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