--- title: They did not chew at all: they stripped leaves and swallowed them, a… — The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosauru… · tree and pragmatics description: They did not chew at all: they stripped leaves and swallowed them, and their huge gut worked like a compost tank, so lunch for a sauropod lasted most of the day. Who acts: tonnes, huge gut, lunch. 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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 (tonnes, huge gut, lunch), 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:3 # text = They did not chew at all: they stripped leaves and swallowed them, and their huge gut worked like a compost tank, so lunch for a sauropod lasted most of the day. # 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 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 chew chew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stripped strip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 gut gut NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 compost compost NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sauropod sauropod NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 lasted last VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 31 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . 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 | **not** **chew** | past · do-support | tonnes *= tonne* | | | | | at all | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at all=Patient | | 2 | **strip** | past | tonnes *= tonne* | leaves | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 3 | **swallow** | past | tonnes *= tonne* *not said here* | tonnes *= tonne* | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **work** | past | tonnes's huge gut | | | | | like a compost tank | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **last** | past | lunch for a sauropod | most of the day | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme most=Value | 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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