--- title: Sarcosuchus, called SuperCroc, lived in Africa about 110 million yea… — Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuch… · tree and pragmatics description: Sarcosuchus, called SuperCroc, lived in Africa about 110 million years ago, grew about 9 to 12 metres long and its fossils were found in the Sahara, which then had rivers and swamps. Who acts: Sarcosuchus, Sahara. 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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, Sahara), 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:11 # text = Sarcosuchus, called SuperCroc, lived in Africa about 110 million years ago, grew about 9 to 12 metres long and its fossils were found in the Sahara, which then had rivers and swamps. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sarcosuchus Sarcosuchus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 4 SuperCroc SuperCroc PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 110 110 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 compound _ _ 11 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 13 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nmod _ _ 20 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Sahara Sahara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 33 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 34 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 swamps swamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | Sarcosuchus *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **live** | past | Sarcosuchus | | | Africa | | ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location | | 3 | **grow** | past | Sarcosuchus *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **find** | past · passive | | snake's fossils | | the Sahara | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 5 | **have** | past | the Sahara | rivers and swamps | | | then | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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: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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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