--- title: Old pictures put Brontosaurus in a lake to hold up its weight, but f… — The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosauru… · tree and pragmatics description: Old pictures put Brontosaurus in a lake to hold up its weight, but footprints and leg bones show sauropods walked on dry land, often in groups with the young in the middle. Who acts: footprints, sauropods. 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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 (footprints, sauropods), 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:4 # text = Old pictures put Brontosaurus in a lake to hold up its weight, but footprints and leg bones show sauropods walked on dry land, often in groups with the young in the middle. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 Brontosaurus Brontosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 footprints footprint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 sauropods sauropod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **put** | past · passive | | Old pictures | | a lake | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset brontosaurus=Goal | | 2 | **hold up** | to-infinitive | | lake's weight | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot weight=Theme | | 3 | **show** | present | footprints and leg bones | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **walk** | past | sauropods | | | dry land | | in groups with the young in the middle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory | 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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