Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 8

From its backbone pieces scientists think Titanoboa was about 13 metres long and as heavy as a small car, about twice as long as the biggest snakes today.

Who acts: scientists, Titanoboa · What happens: think, be · To what, where: backbone pieces, 13 metres · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (scientists, Titanoboa), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 pieces	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pieces	nmod:poss
3	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pieces	compound
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 think	obl
5	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Titanoboa	Titanoboa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 metres	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 metres	cop
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 13	advmod
10	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 metres	nummod
11	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 think	ccomp
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 metres	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 heavy	cc
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 heavy	advmod
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 long	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 car	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 car	det
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 car	amod
19	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heavy	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heavy	punct
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 twice	advmod
22	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 long	advmod
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 long	advmod
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 long	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	28 snakes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 snakes	det
27	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 snakes	amod
28	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 long	obl
29	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 snakes	nmod:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	scientists			food's backbone pieces			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Titanoboa	13 metres				long property	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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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