--- title: Titanoboa was a snake about 13 metres long that lived in a hot swamp… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost… · tree and pragmatics description: Titanoboa was a snake about 13 metres long that lived in a hot swamp in Colombia 60 million years ago and probably ate fish and crocodiles. Who acts: Titanoboa, snake. A sentence of the lesson «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Terror birds, moas, giant insects and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants/) / 11 # Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 11 Titanoboa was a snake about 13 metres long that lived in a hot swamp in Colombia 60 million years ago and probably ate fish and crocodiles. **Who acts:** Titanoboa, snake · **What happens:** be, live, eat · **To what, where:** snake, hot swamp, fish This is a sentence of the lesson «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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, snake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:11 # text = Titanoboa was a snake about 13 metres long that lived in a hot swamp in Colombia 60 million years ago and probably ate fish and crocodiles. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Titanoboa Titanoboa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 13 13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:unmarked 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 swamp swamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Colombia Colombia NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked 20 ago ago ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 probably probably ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 crocodiles crocodile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Titanoboa | a snake | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | past | a snake | | | a hot swamp in Colombia | | ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in swamp=Location | | 3 | **eat** | past | a snake *not said here* | fish and crocodiles | | | | probably *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:11`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-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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