Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 15

Stupendemys lived in South American rivers several million years ago, had a shell over two metres long, and some shells were reported to have two horns at the front.

Who acts: Stupendemys · What happens: live, have, report · To what, where: South American rivers, shell, shells, two horns, front

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 (Stupendemys), 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	Stupendemys	Stupendemys	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 rivers	case
4	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rivers	compound
5	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rivers	amod
6	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 million	amod
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ago	obl:unmarked
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shell	det
14	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 metres	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 metres	nummod
17	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 long	obl
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 had	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reported	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 reported	cc
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 shells	det
22	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 reported	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 reported	aux:pass
24	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lived	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 have	mark
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 reported	xcomp
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 horns	nummod
28	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 front	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 front	det
31	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	Stupendemys		South American rivers	ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location
2	have	past	Stupendemys not said here	a shell		long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient
3	report	past · passive		some shells			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
4	have	to-infinitive		two horns	the front		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=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:15.

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, 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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