Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 2

Long ago there were other reptile giants too: SuperCroc in Africa with a skull as long as a grown-up is tall, Deinosuchus in North America that bit dinosaurs, sea turtles longer than a car and a giant lizard in Australia.

Who acts: other reptile giants, SuperCroc, Deinosuchus · What happens: be, grow, bit · To what, where: dinosaurs

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 (other reptile giants, SuperCroc, Deinosuchus), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ago	advmod
2	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 were	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 giants	amod
6	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 giants	compound
7	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
8	too	too	ADV	_	4 were	advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 were	punct
10	SuperCroc	SuperCroc	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 tall	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Africa	case
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 SuperCroc	nmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 skull	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 skull	det
15	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 SuperCroc	nmod
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 tall	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 tall	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 up	det
20	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 up	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 grown	punct
22	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tall	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 tall	cop
24	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 were	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Deinosuchus	punct
26	Deinosuchus	Deinosuchus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 were	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 America	case
28	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 America	compound
29	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Deinosuchus	nmod
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 bit	nsubj
31	bit	bit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 Deinosuchus	acl:relcl
32	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bit	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 turtles	punct
34	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 turtles	compound
35	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 dinosaurs	conj
36	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 turtles	advmod
37	than	than	ADP	_	39 car	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 car	det
39	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 longer	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lizard	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 lizard	det
42	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 lizard	amod
43	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dinosaurs	conj
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 Australia	case
45	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 lizard	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 were	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	be	past	other reptile giants		there	ago property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	SuperCroc in Africa with a skull			long, tall property	tree rules
4	bit	past	Deinosuchus in North America	dinosaurs and sea turtles and a giant lizard in Australia			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:2.

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 ×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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