--- title: A big snake has a few hundred backbone pieces, nearly each with a pa… — Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuch… · tree and pragmatics description: A big snake has a few hundred backbone pieces, nearly each with a pair of ribs; you have 33 backbone pieces and 24 ribs. Who acts: big snake, you. A sentence of the lesson «Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises/10/) [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/) / [Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises/) / 10 # Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 10 A big snake has a few hundred backbone pieces, nearly each with a pair of ribs; you have 33 backbone pieces and 24 ribs. **Who acts:** big snake, you · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** few hundred backbone pieces, 33 backbone pieces 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 (big snake, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises.lesson:10 # text = A big snake has a few hundred backbone pieces, nearly each with a pair of ribs; you have 33 backbone pieces and 24 ribs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 backbone backbone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 appos _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 33 33 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 backbone backbone NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **have** | present | a big snake | a few hundred backbone pieces | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | you | 33 backbone pieces and 24 ribs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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:383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises.lesson:10`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa,…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises/9/) - next →: [Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa,…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises/)