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title: That was Paraceratherium, a hornless relative of rhinos that browsed… — Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Dipr… · tree and pragmatics
description: That was Paraceratherium, a hornless relative of rhinos that browsed on treetops in Asia, including China, about 30 million years ago. Who acts: That, hornless relative. A sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» of the bio
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# Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 1

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That was Paraceratherium, a hornless relative of rhinos that browsed on treetops in Asia, including China, about 30 million years ago.

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**Who acts:** That, hornless relative · **What happens:** be, browse · **To what, where:** Paraceratherium, treetops

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, hornless relative), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.lesson:1
# text = That was Paraceratherium, a hornless relative of rhinos that browsed on treetops in Asia, including China, about 30 million years ago.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Paraceratherium	Paraceratherium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hornless	hornless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	browsed	browse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	treetops	treetop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	including	include	ADP	VBG	_	18	case	_	_
18	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nummod
22	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl:unmarked
24	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | That | Paraceratherium |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **browse** | past | a hornless relative of rhinos |  |  | treetops |  | in Asia include China; ago *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.lesson:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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