--- title: Quetzalcoatlus stood as tall as a giraffe, with wings about 10 metre… — Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, m… · tree and pragmatics description: Quetzalcoatlus stood as tall as a giraffe, with wings about 10 metres across; it walked on all fours and caught small animals on land, and probably vaulted into the air with its strong arms. Who acts: Quetzalcoatlus, wing. 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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 (Quetzalcoatlus, wing), 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:7 # text = Quetzalcoatlus stood as tall as a giraffe, with wings about 10 metres across; it walked on all fours and caught small animals on land, and probably vaulted into the air with its strong arms. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Quetzalcoatlus Quetzalcoatlus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 as as ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 across across ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 fours four NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 probably probably ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 vaulted vault VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | Quetzalcoatlus | | | | | as a giraffe; with wings 10 metres; tall *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **walk** | past | wing | | | all fours | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on four=Trajectory | | 3 | **catch** | past | wing *not said here* | small animals | | land | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 4 | **vault** | past | wing *not said here* | | | the air | | with wing's strong arms; probably *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination | 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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