--- title: Long-necked sauropods were the biggest land animals ever: Diplodocus… — Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived · tree and pragmatics description: Long-necked sauropods were the biggest land animals ever: Diplodocus was about 26 metres long, and Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan may have weighed as much as ten elephants or more; a long neck let them reach lots of plants while their heavy bodies stood still, which saved energy. 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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 (necked sauropods, Diplodocus, Argentinosaurus, long neck), 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:8 # text = Long-necked sauropods were the biggest land animals ever: Diplodocus was about 26 metres long, and Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan may have weighed as much as ten elephants or more; a long neck let them reach lots of plants while their heavy bodies stood still, which saved energy. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 necked neck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 sauropods sauropod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 8 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 9 advmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 Diplodocus Diplodocus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 26 26 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 parataxis _ _ 17 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Argentinosaurus Argentinosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 Patagotitan Patagotitan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux _ _ 25 weighed weigh VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 26 as as ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obj _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 conj _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ _ 43 while while SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 44 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 47 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 48 still still ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 51 nsubj _ _ 51 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 52 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **neck** | participle | | | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | necked sauropods | the biggest land animals | | | ever | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | Diplodocus | 26 metres | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **weigh** | may · perfect | Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan | much | | | | as ten elephants | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | a long neck | Argentinosaurus | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **reach** | infinitive | Argentinosaurus *not said here* | lots of plants | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | | 7 | **stand** | past | Argentinosaurus's heavy bodies | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **save** | past | | energy | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.lesson:8`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they l…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives/7/) - next →: [Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they l…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives/)