--- title: Megalania was a giant monitor lizard in Australia until about 50,000… — Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuch… · tree and pragmatics description: Megalania was a giant monitor lizard in Australia until about 50,000 years ago; its size is argued, but many think about 5 to 7 metres. Who acts: Megalania, many. 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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 (Megalania, many), 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:16 # text = Megalania was a giant monitor lizard in Australia until about 50,000 years ago; its size is argued, but many think about 5 to 7 metres. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Megalania Megalania 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 monitor monitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 until until ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 50,000 50000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJ:PronType=Ind 22 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nmod _ _ 27 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **is a** | past | Megalania | a giant monitor lizard | | Australia | year | | tree rules | | 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | lizard's size | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **think about** *speech: other* | present | many | 5 metres | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot metre=Theme | 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:16`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×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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