Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 9

Titanoboa lived in a warm, steamy world of rivers and may have eaten mostly big fish; whether warmth let it grow so big is still argued.

Who acts: Titanoboa, warmth, fish · What happens: live, eat, let, grow, argue · To what, where: warm steamy world, big fish, fish · 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 (Titanoboa, warmth, fish), 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	_	8 world	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 world	det
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 world	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 warm	punct
7	steamy	steamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 world	amod
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 rivers	case
10	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 world	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eaten	cc
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 eaten	aux
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 lived	conj
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	16 big	advmod
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fish	amod
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eaten	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 let	mark
20	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 let	nsubj
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 argued	csubj:pass
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 big	advmod
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grow	xcomp
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 argued	aux:pass
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 argued	advmod
28	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lived	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Titanoboa		a warm steamy world of rivers			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location
2	eat	may · perfect	Titanoboa not said here	big fish				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
3	let	infinitive	warmth	fish				tree rules
4	grow	infinitive	fish not said here				big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	argue speech: disagree	present · passive				still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»

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:9.

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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