Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 13

Sarcosuchus was a crocodile relative about 11 metres long that lived in Africa alongside dinosaurs; its snout ended in a bulb, like a gharial's.

Who acts: Sarcosuchus, snout · What happens: be, live, end · To what, where: crocodile, Africa, bulb

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 (Sarcosuchus, snout), 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	Sarcosuchus	Sarcosuchus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 crocodile	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crocodile	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crocodile	det
4	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	relative	relative	ADV	_	7 11	advmod
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 11	advmod
7	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 metres	nummod
8	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crocodile	appos
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 relative	amod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 relative	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Africa	case
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
14	alongside	alongside	ADP	_	15 dinosaurs	case
15	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lived	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 ended	punct
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 snout	nmod:poss
18	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ended	nsubj
19	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crocodile	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 bulb	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bulb	det
22	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ended	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gharial	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 gharial	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 gharial	det
26	gharial	gharial	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ended	obl
27	's	's	PART	_	26 gharial	case
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crocodile	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Sarcosuchus	a crocodile			tree rules
2	live	past			Africa	alongside dinosaurs	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location
3	end	past	ape's snout		a bulb	like a gharial	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:13.

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 ×2. 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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