--- title: Stegosaurus was a plant-eater about 9 metres long that lived about 1… — Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived · tree and pragmatics description: Stegosaurus was a plant-eater about 9 metres long that lived about 150 million years ago, with two rows of bony back plates and four tail spikes; the idea of a second brain in its hips is a myth. Who acts: Stegosaurus, plant eater, idea. 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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 (Stegosaurus, plant eater, idea), 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:6 # text = Stegosaurus was a plant-eater about 9 metres long that lived about 150 million years ago, with two rows of bony back plates and four tail spikes; the idea of a second brain in its hips is a myth. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Stegosaurus Stegosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 eater eater NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 150 150 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 compound _ _ 15 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl:unmarked 17 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 bony bony ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 28 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 spikes spike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 36 amod _ _ 36 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 hips hip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Stegosaurus | a plant eater | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | past | a plant eater | | | | | with two rows of bony back plates and four tail spikes; ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with row=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | the idea of a second brain in metre's hips | a myth and a plant eater | | | | | 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. 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