--- title: Paraceratherium, a hornless rhino of Asia, was about 5 metres tall a… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost… · tree and pragmatics description: Paraceratherium, a hornless rhino of Asia, was about 5 metres tall at the shoulder, ate leaves from treetops and was the biggest land mammal ever. Who acts: Paraceratherium. 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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 (Paraceratherium), 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:14 # text = Paraceratherium, a hornless rhino of Asia, was about 5 metres tall at the shoulder, ate leaves from treetops and was the biggest land mammal ever. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Paraceratherium Paraceratherium PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 hornless hornless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 rhino rhino NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 18 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 treetops treetop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ _ 26 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 mammal mammal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 28 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **is** | past | Paraceratherium | | | the shoulder | | 5 metres *obl:unmarked*; tall *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | past | | leaves | | treetops | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | past | | the biggest land mammal | | | ever | | tree rules | 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:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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