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title: Like rhinos, Paraceratherium walked on three toes on each foot; a ho… — Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Dipr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like rhinos, Paraceratherium walked on three toes on each foot; a horse has one toe on each foot and an elephant five inside its round foot. Who acts: Paraceratherium, horse. A sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» of th
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# Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 9

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Like rhinos, Paraceratherium walked on three toes on each foot; a horse has one toe on each foot and an elephant five inside its round foot.

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**Who acts:** Paraceratherium, horse · **What happens:** walk, have · **To what, where:** three toes, one toe, foot

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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 (Paraceratherium, horse), 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:9
# text = Like rhinos, Paraceratherium walked on three toes on each foot; a horse has one toe on each foot and an elephant five inside its round foot.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Paraceratherium	Paraceratherium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **walk** | past | Paraceratherium |  |  | three toes on each foot |  | like rhinos | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | present | a horse and a elephant | one toe |  | each foot |  | inside elephant's round foot | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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.

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

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