--- title: Tyrannosaurus rex lived about 68 to 66 million years ago in western… — Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from tee… · tree and pragmatics description: Tyrannosaurus rex lived about 68 to 66 million years ago in western North America, and a grown one was about 12 metres long and as tall at the hips as a double-decker bus. Who acts: Tyrannosaurus rex, grown one. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tyrannosaurus rex, grown one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms.lesson:0 # text = Tyrannosaurus rex lived about 68 to 66 million years ago in western North America, and a grown one was about 12 metres long and as tall at the hips as a double-decker bus. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 rex rex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 68 68 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 8 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked 10 ago ago ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 as as ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 27 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 hips hip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:amod 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 decker decker NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | Tyrannosaurus rex | | | western North America | | ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | a grown one | | | | | 12 metres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | a grown one *not said here* | | | the hips | | as a decker bus | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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