--- title: Deinosuchus was a giant alligator relative in North America about 80… — Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuch… · tree and pragmatics description: Deinosuchus was a giant alligator relative in North America about 80 to 75 million years ago, with thick blunt crushing teeth, and some dinosaur bones carry its bite marks. Who acts: Deinosuchus, dinosaur bones, relative. 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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 (Deinosuchus, dinosaur bones, relative), 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:13 # text = Deinosuchus was a giant alligator relative in North America about 80 to 75 million years ago, with thick blunt crushing teeth, and some dinosaur bones carry its bite marks. # 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 Deinosuchus Deinosuchus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 alligator alligator NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 relative relative NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 80 80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 compound _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 75 75 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ _ 14 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 blunt blunt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 crushing crush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ _ 22 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 26 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Deinosuchus | a giant alligator relative | | North America | | with thick blunt crushing teeth; ago *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **crush** | gerund | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **carry** | present | some dinosaur bones | relative's bite marks | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme | | 4 | **mark** | | relative | | | | | | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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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