--- title: Brachiosaurus had long front legs and could reach treetops about 12… — The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosauru… · tree and pragmatics description: Brachiosaurus had long front legs and could reach treetops about 12 metres up; some other sauropods probably held their necks more level, sweeping low plants. Who acts: Brachiosaurus, other 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 (Brachiosaurus, other 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:8 # text = Brachiosaurus had long front legs and could reach treetops about 12 metres up; some other sauropods probably held their necks more level, sweeping low plants. # 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 ×2 1 Brachiosaurus Brachiosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 4 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 9 treetops treetop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked 13 up up ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 sauropods sauropod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 probably probably ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 sweeping sweep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 26 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Brachiosaurus | long front legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 2 | **reach** | could | Brachiosaurus *not said here* | treetops | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent treetop=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | past | some other sauropods | sauropods's necks and more level | | | | probably *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | | 4 | **sweep** | gerund | some other sauropods *not said here* | low plants | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plant=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods.lesson:8`. **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 ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Br…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/7/) - next →: [The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Br…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/)