Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 11
Sarcosuchus, called SuperCroc, lived in Africa about 110 million years ago, grew about 9 to 12 metres long and its fossils were found in the Sahara, which then had rivers and swamps.
Who acts: Sarcosuchus, Sahara · What happens: call, live, grow, find, have · To what, where: Sarcosuchus, Africa, fossils, Sahara, rivers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sarcosuchus, Sahara), 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 | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 SuperCroc | punct |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Sarcosuchus | acl |
| 4 | SuperCroc | SuperCroc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sarcosuchus | punct |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Africa | case |
| 8 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 million | advmod |
| 10 | 110 | 110 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 million | compound |
| 11 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 9 | advmod |
| 17 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 metres | nummod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 12 | case |
| 19 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 9 | nmod |
| 20 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 long | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fossils | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 found | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux:pass |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 grew | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Sahara | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Sahara | det |
| 29 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 had | nsubj |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 had | advmod |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Sahara | acl:relcl |
| 34 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 had | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 swamps | cc |
| 36 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 rivers | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Sarcosuchus not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | live | past | Sarcosuchus | Africa | ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location | |||
| 3 | grow | past | Sarcosuchus not said here | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past · passive | snake's fossils | the Sahara | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 5 | have | past | the Sahara | rivers and swamps | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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:383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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