Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 12
SuperCroc had a round bony bump at the tip of its snout, and nobody knows for sure what it was for.
Who acts: SuperCroc, nobody · What happens: have, know · To what, where: round bony bump, tip
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 (SuperCroc, nobody), 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 | SuperCroc | SuperCroc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bump | det |
| 4 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bump | amod |
| 5 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bump | amod |
| 6 | bump | bump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 tip | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tip | det |
| 9 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 snout | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 snout | nmod:poss |
| 12 | snout | snout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tip | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knows | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knows | cc |
| 15 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 knows | nsubj |
| 16 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sure | case |
| 18 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knows | obl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 knows | obj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 for | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 for | cop |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 what | case |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | SuperCroc | a round bony bump | the tip of tip's snout | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bump=Patient | |||
| 2 | know | present | nobody | for sure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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:12.
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): R7-rel-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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