Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 12

Gigantopithecus was a giant ape, maybe 3 metres tall, that lived in China until about 300,000 years ago; we know it only from teeth and jaws, and there is no evidence that Bigfoot exists.

Who acts: Gigantopithecus, giant ape, we, evidence, Bigfoot · What happens: be, live, know, exist · To what, where: giant ape, China, ape, teeth, evidence

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 (Gigantopithecus, giant ape, we, evidence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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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