--- title: Ichthyosaurs, the «fish lizards», looked like dolphins but were rept… — Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, m… · tree and pragmatics description: Ichthyosaurs, the «fish lizards», looked like dolphins but were reptiles, and one kind had eyes about as big as a football, among the biggest eyes of any animal, for seeing in deep, dark water. Who acts: Ichthyosaurs, one kind. 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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 (Ichthyosaurs, one kind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.lesson:11 # text = Ichthyosaurs, the «fish lizards», looked like dolphins but were reptiles, and one kind had eyes about as big as a football, among the biggest eyes of any animal, for seeing in deep, dark water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Ichthyosaurs ichthyosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis 10 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 reptiles reptile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 20 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 among among ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 34 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | Ichthyosaurs | | | | | like dolphins | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | past | Ichthyosaurs *not said here* | reptiles | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | one kind | eyes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 4 | **see** | gerund | one kind *not said here* | | | deep dark water | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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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