Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 1

Scientists found pieces like that in a coal mine in Colombia, and from them they worked out a snake about 13 metres long, as heavy as a small car: Titanoboa.

Who acts: Scientists · What happens: find, work out · To what, where: pieces, coal mine, snake

This is a sentence of the lesson «Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises» 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 (Scientists), 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	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 pieces	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 mine	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mine	det
8	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mine	compound
9	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Colombia	case
11	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mine	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 worked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 worked	cc
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 worked	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 worked	nsubj
17	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 worked	compound:prt
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 snake	det
20	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 worked	obj
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 13	advmod
22	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 metres	nummod
23	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 long	obl:unmarked
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 snake	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Titanoboa	punct
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 heavy	advmod
27	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Titanoboa	amod
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 car	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 car	det
30	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 car	amod
31	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heavy	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 heavy	punct
33	Titanoboa	Titanoboa	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 snake	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Scientists	pieces		a coal mine in Colombia		like that	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic
2	work out	past	Scientists = scientist	a snake				from Scientists = scientist	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic

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:383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises.lesson:1.

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 ×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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