Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 17
The saltwater crocodile, up to about 6 metres long, is the biggest living reptile.
Who acts: saltwater crocodile · What happens: be · To what, where: biggest living reptile
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 (saltwater crocodile), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crocodile | det |
| 2 | saltwater | saltwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crocodile | compound |
| 3 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reptile | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 metres | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 6 | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 6 | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 6 | advmod |
| 8 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 metres | nummod |
| 9 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crocodile | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 metres | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crocodile | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 reptile | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 reptile | det |
| 14 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 reptile | amod |
| 15 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 reptile | amod |
| 16 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 reptile | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the saltwater crocodile 6 metres | the biggest living reptile | tree rules |
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:17.
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): no change. 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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