Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 7

Titanoboa lived in South America about 60 million years ago, soon after the dinosaurs died out, and its bones were found in a coal mine in Colombia.

Who acts: Titanoboa, dinosaurs · What happens: live, die out, find · To what, where: South America, bones, coal mine

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 (Titanoboa, dinosaurs), 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	Titanoboa	Titanoboa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 America	case
4	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 America	compound
5	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
6	about	about	ADV	_	8 million	advmod
7	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 million	compound
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	_	16 died	punct
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 died	advmod
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 died	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dinosaurs	det
15	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 died	nsubj
16	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	advcl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 died	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bones	nmod:poss
21	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 found	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 found	aux:pass
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lived	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 mine	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mine	det
26	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mine	compound
27	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Colombia	case
29	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 mine	nmod
30	.	.	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	Titanoboa		South America	ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location
2	die out	past	the dinosaurs			soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	find	past · passive		food's bones	a coal mine in Colombia		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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:7.

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 ×3, 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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