Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 11
Titanoboa was a snake about 13 metres long that lived in a hot swamp in Colombia 60 million years ago and probably ate fish and crocodiles.
Who acts: Titanoboa, snake · What happens: be, live, eat · To what, where: snake, hot swamp, fish
This is a sentence of the lesson «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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 (Titanoboa, snake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Titanoboa | Titanoboa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 snake | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 snake | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 snake | det |
| 4 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 13 | advmod |
| 6 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 metres | nummod |
| 7 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 long | obl |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snake | amod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 snake | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 swamp | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 swamp | det |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 swamp | amod |
| 14 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Colombia | case |
| 16 | Colombia | Colombia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swamp | nmod |
| 17 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 million | nummod |
| 18 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 lived | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ate | cc |
| 22 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 23 ate | advmod |
| 23 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lived | conj |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ate | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 crocodiles | cc |
| 26 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fish | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 snake | punct |
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 | Titanoboa | a snake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a snake | a hot swamp in Colombia | ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in swamp=Location | |||
| 3 | eat | past | a snake not said here | fish and crocodiles | probably property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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, 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:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:11.
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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-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.
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