--- title: Stupendemys lived in South American rivers several million years ago… — Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuch… · tree and pragmatics description: Stupendemys lived in South American rivers several million years ago, had a shell over two metres long, and some shells were reported to have two horns at the front. Who acts: Stupendemys. 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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 (Stupendemys), 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:15 # text = Stupendemys lived in South American rivers several million years ago, had a shell over two metres long, and some shells were reported to have two horns at the front. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Stupendemys Stupendemys PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 ago ago ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 18 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | Stupendemys | | | South American rivers | | ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location | | 2 | **have** | past | Stupendemys *not said here* | a shell | | | | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient | | 3 | **report** | past · passive | | some shells | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | | two horns | | the front | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=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:15`. **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 ×1, 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. 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