--- title: Sarcosuchus was a crocodile relative about 11 metres long that lived… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost… · tree and pragmatics description: Sarcosuchus was a crocodile relative about 11 metres long that lived in Africa alongside dinosaurs; its snout ended in a bulb, like a gharial's. Who acts: Sarcosuchus, snout. 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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 (Sarcosuchus, snout), 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:13 # text = Sarcosuchus was a crocodile relative about 11 metres long that lived in Africa alongside dinosaurs; its snout ended in a bulb, like a gharial's. # 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 ×2 1 Sarcosuchus Sarcosuchus 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 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 relative relative ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 alongside alongside ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 snout snout NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bulb bulb NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 gharial gharial NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Sarcosuchus | a crocodile | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | past | | | | Africa | | alongside dinosaurs | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location | | 3 | **end** | past | ape's snout | | | a bulb | | like a gharial | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:13`. **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 ×2. **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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