--- title: Arthropleura was a millipede relative as long as a car that lived in… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost… · tree and pragmatics description: Arthropleura was a millipede relative as long as a car that lived in the coal forests and probably ate plants; the coal we burn comes from those forests. Who acts: Arthropleura, car, we, coal. 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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 (Arthropleura, car, we, coal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:10 # text = Arthropleura was a millipede relative as long as a car that lived in the coal forests and probably ate plants; the coal we burn comes from those forests. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.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 Arthropleura Arthropleura PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 millipede millipede NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 relative relative NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 probably probably ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 burn burn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | Arthropleura | a millipede relative | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | past | a car | | | the coal forests | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | | 3 | **eat** | past | a car *not said here* | plants | | | | probably *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | | 4 | **burn** | present | we | the coal *not said here* | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme | | 5 | **come** | present | the coal | | | that forests | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial\_Location | 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:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:10`. **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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