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title: Sauropod bones had air pockets inside, as birds' bones do, which mad… — The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosauru… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sauropod bones had air pockets inside, as birds' bones do, which made the skeleton lighter and helped breathing. Who acts: Sauropod bones, bones. A sentence of the lesson «The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch
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# The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus, sentence 7

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Sauropod bones had air pockets inside, as birds' bones do, which made the skeleton lighter and helped breathing.

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**Who acts:** Sauropod bones, bones · **What happens:** have, do, make, help, breathe · **To what, where:** air pockets, skeleton

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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 (Sauropod bones, bones), 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:7
# text = Sauropod bones had air pockets inside, as birds' bones do, which made the skeleton lighter and helped breathing.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sauropod	sauropod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	lighter	lighter	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | past | Sauropod bones | air pockets |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | birds's bones |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past |  | the skeleton |  |  |  | lighter *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skeleton=Product |
| 4 | **help** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **breathe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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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