--- title: All dinosaurs hatched from eggs; even the biggest eggs were only abo… — Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived · tree and pragmatics description: All dinosaurs hatched from eggs; even the biggest eggs were only about the size of a football, because a much bigger egg would need a shell too thick for the baby to break out, and Maiasaura, the good mother lizard, nested in colonies and seems to have fed its young. 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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 (dinosaurs, biggest eggs, bigger egg, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.lesson:12 # text = All dinosaurs hatched from eggs; even the biggest eggs were only about the size of a football, because a much bigger egg would need a shell too thick for the baby to break out, and Maiasaura, the good mother lizard, nested in colonies and seems to have fed its young. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hatched hatch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 7 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 much much ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 too too ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 36 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 Maiasaura Maiasaura PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 nested nest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 colonies colony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 conj _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 53 mark _ _ 52 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 53 aux _ _ 53 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 50 xcomp _ _ 54 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 young young NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=53:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hatch** | past | all dinosaurs | | | | | from eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from egg=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | the biggest eggs | | | | | about the size; of a football | tree rules | | 3 | **need** | would | a bigger egg | a shell | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shell=Theme | | 4 | **break out** | to-infinitive | the baby | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **nest** | past | Maiasaura | | | colonies | | | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **seem** | present | Maiasaura *not said here* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 7 | **feed** | to-infinitive · perfect | Maiasaura *not said here* | baby's young | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Recipient | 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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