--- title: Some scientists think a warmer world helped these giants grow so big… — Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuch… · tree and pragmatics description: Some scientists think a warmer world helped these giants grow so big, but that is still argued. Who acts: scientists, warmer world, giants. 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 wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises/) / 4 # Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 4 Some scientists think a warmer world helped these giants grow so big, but that is still argued. **Who acts:** scientists, warmer world, giants · **What happens:** think, help, grow, argue · **To what, where:** giants, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (scientists, warmer world, giants), 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:4 # text = Some scientists think a warmer world helped these giants grow so big, but that is still argued. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 15 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 17 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **help** | past | a warmer world | this giants | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent giant=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | infinitive | this giants *not said here* | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | that | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | 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:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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