--- title: Big animals need lots of food and have few babies, so when climates… — Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuch… · tree and pragmatics description: Big animals need lots of food and have few babies, so when climates changed and rivers moved, the giants were among the first to go. Who acts: Big animals, climates, rivers, giants. A sentence of the lesson «Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises» of the --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 6 Big animals need lots of food and have few babies, so when climates changed and rivers moved, the giants were among the first to go. **Who acts:** Big animals, climates, rivers, giants · **What happens:** need, have, change, move, be, go · **To what, where:** lots, few babies 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 (Big animals, climates, rivers, 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:6 # text = Big animals need lots of food and have few babies, so when climates changed and rivers moved, the giants were among the first to go. # 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): no change 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 climates climate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 among among ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 parataxis _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Big animals | lots of food | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | Big animals *not said here* | few babies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 3 | **change** | past | climates | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **move** | past | rivers | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | the giants | | | | | first *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | the giants *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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