Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 16

Megalania was a giant monitor lizard in Australia until about 50,000 years ago; its size is argued, but many think about 5 to 7 metres.

Who acts: Megalania, many · What happens: be, argue, think about · To what, where: giant monitor lizard, Australia, size, 5 metres

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 (Megalania, many), 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	Megalania	Megalania	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lizard	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lizard	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lizard	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lizard	amod
5	monitor	monitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lizard	compound
6	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Australia	case
8	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lizard	nmod
9	until	until	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 50,000	advmod
11	50,000	50000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lizard	obl
13	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 years	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 argued	punct
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 size	nmod:poss
16	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 argued	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 argued	aux:pass
18	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lizard	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 think	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 think	cc
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 think	nsubj
22	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 argued	conj
23	about	about	ADV	_	24 5	advmod
24	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 metres	nummod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 7	case
26	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 5	nmod
27	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 think	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lizard	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	Megalania	a giant monitor lizard	Australia	year	tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	present · passive		lizard's size			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
3	think about speech: other	present	many	5 metres			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot metre=Theme

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:16.

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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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