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title: Argentinosaurus may have weighed 70 tonnes or more and been about 35… — The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosauru… · tree and pragmatics
description: Argentinosaurus may have weighed 70 tonnes or more and been about 35 metres long; these sizes are estimates from a few huge bones. Who acts: Argentinosaurus, sizes. 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 6

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Argentinosaurus may have weighed 70 tonnes or more and been about 35 metres long; these sizes are estimates from a few huge bones.

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**Who acts:** Argentinosaurus, sizes · **What happens:** weigh, be · **To what, where:** 70 tonnes, 35 metres, estimates, few huge bones

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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 (Argentinosaurus, sizes), 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:6
# text = Argentinosaurus may have weighed 70 tonnes or more and been about 35 metres long; these sizes are estimates from a few huge bones.
# 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	Argentinosaurus	Argentinosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	estimates	estimate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **weigh** | may · perfect | Argentinosaurus | 70 tonnes |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tonne=Value |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | 35 metres |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | this sizes | estimates |  | a few huge bones |  |  | 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): 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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