--- title: A pterosaur's wing was skin stretched from one hugely long fourth fi… — Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, m… · tree and pragmatics description: A pterosaur's wing was skin stretched from one hugely long fourth finger, and the biggest, Quetzalcoatlus, stood as tall as a giraffe and strode about on all fours like a giant stork. Who acts: wing, biggest. 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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 (wing, biggest), 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:2 # text = A pterosaur's wing was skin stretched from one hugely long fourth finger, and the biggest, Quetzalcoatlus, stood as tall as a giraffe and strode about on all fours like a giant stork. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 pterosaur pterosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 10 hugely hugely ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 fourth fourth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ _ 13 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 nsubj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Quetzalcoatlus Quetzalcoatlus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 strode stride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 fours four NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | a pterosaur's wing | skin | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stretch** | participle | | skin *not said here* | | one long fourth finger | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from finger=Location | | 3 | **stand** | past | the biggest | | | | | tall *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stride** | past | the biggest *not said here* | | | all fours | | like a giant stork; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on four=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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