Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 6

Big animals need lots of food and have few babies, so when climates changed and rivers moved, the giants were among the first to go.

Who acts: Big animals, climates, rivers, giants · What happens: need, have, change, move, be, go · To what, where: lots, few babies

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 (Big animals, climates, rivers, giants), 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	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lots	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 have	cc
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 need	conj
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 babies	amod
10	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 changed	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 changed	advmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 changed	advmod
14	climates	climate	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 changed	nsubj
15	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 need	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 moved	cc
17	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 moved	nsubj
18	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 changed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 first	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 giants	det
21	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 first	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 first	cop
23	among	among	ADP	_	25 first	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 first	det
25	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 changed	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 first	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	Big animals	lots of food		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme
2	have	present	Big animals not said here	few babies		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
3	change	past	climates			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	move	past	rivers			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	the giants		first property	tree rules
6	go	to-infinitive	the giants not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.

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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