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title: Long ago there were other reptile giants too: SuperCroc in Africa wi… — Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuch… · tree and pragmatics
description: Long ago there were other reptile giants too: SuperCroc in Africa with a skull as long as a grown-up is tall, Deinosuchus in North America that bit dinosaurs, sea turtles longer than a car and a giant lizard in Australia. Who acts: other reptile giants, SuperCroc, Deinosuchus. A sentence of the less
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# Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 2

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Long ago there were other reptile giants too: SuperCroc in Africa with a skull as long as a grown-up is tall, Deinosuchus in North America that bit dinosaurs, sea turtles longer than a car and a giant lizard in Australia.

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**Who acts:** other reptile giants, SuperCroc, Deinosuchus · **What happens:** be, grow, bit · **To what, where:** dinosaurs

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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 (other reptile giants, SuperCroc, Deinosuchus), 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:2
# text = Long ago there were other reptile giants too: SuperCroc in Africa with a skull as long as a grown-up is tall, Deinosuchus in North America that bit dinosaurs, sea turtles longer than a car and a giant lizard in Australia.
# 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
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	reptile	reptile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
10	SuperCroc	SuperCroc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Deinosuchus	Deinosuchus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	bit	bit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
37	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | other reptile giants |  |  | there |  | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | SuperCroc in Africa with a skull |  |  |  |  | long, tall *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bit** | past | Deinosuchus in North America | dinosaurs and sea turtles and a giant lizard in Australia |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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. **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/).

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