Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 13

Deinosuchus was a giant alligator relative in North America about 80 to 75 million years ago, with thick blunt crushing teeth, and some dinosaur bones carry its bite marks.

Who acts: Deinosuchus, dinosaur bones, relative · What happens: be, crush, carry, mark · To what, where: giant alligator relative, North America, bite marks

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 (Deinosuchus, dinosaur bones, relative), 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	Deinosuchus	Deinosuchus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 relative	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 relative	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 relative	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 relative	amod
5	alligator	alligator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 relative	compound
6	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 America	case
8	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 America	compound
9	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 relative	nmod
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 80	advmod
11	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 million	compound
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 75	case
13	75	75	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 80	nmod
14	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ago	obl:unmarked
16	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 relative	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 teeth	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 teeth	case
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 teeth	amod
20	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 teeth	amod
21	crushing	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 teeth	amod
22	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 relative	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 carry	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 carry	cc
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 bones	det
26	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bones	compound
27	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 carry	nsubj
28	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 relative	conj
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 marks	nmod:poss
30	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 marks	compound
31	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 carry	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 relative	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Deinosuchus	a giant alligator relative	North America	with thick blunt crushing teeth; ago property	tree rules
2	crush	gerund					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	carry	present	some dinosaur bones	relative's bite marks			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme
4	mark		relative				nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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: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): 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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