--- title: The name Diprotodon means two forward teeth: two big front teeth stu… — Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Dipr… · tree and pragmatics description: The name Diprotodon means two forward teeth: two big front teeth stuck forward from its lower jaw, good for biting off plants. Who acts: name, two big front teeth. A sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» of the biology c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Mammal giants of the past: Paracerathe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus/) / 12 # Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 12 The name Diprotodon means two forward teeth: two big front teeth stuck forward from its lower jaw, good for biting off plants. **Who acts:** name, two big front teeth · **What happens:** mean, stuck, bite off · **To what, where:** two forward teeth, lower jaw, plants 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 (name, two big front teeth), 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:12 # text = The name Diprotodon means two forward teeth: two big front teeth stuck forward from its lower jaw, good for biting off plants. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Diprotodon Diprotodon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 forward forward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 10 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stuck stuck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 forward forward ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 biting bite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 23 off off ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | the name | two forward teeth | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Topic | | 2 | **stuck** | present | two big front teeth | | | name's lower jaw | | forward *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bite off** | gerund | two big front teeth *not said here* | plants | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | 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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