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title: Titanoboa lived in South America about 60 million years ago, soon af… — Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuch… · tree and pragmatics
description: Titanoboa lived in South America about 60 million years ago, soon after the dinosaurs died out, and its bones were found in a coal mine in Colombia. Who acts: Titanoboa, dinosaurs. A sentence of the lesson «Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises» of the b
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# Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 7

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Titanoboa lived in South America about 60 million years ago, soon after the dinosaurs died out, and its bones were found in a coal mine in Colombia.

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**Who acts:** Titanoboa, dinosaurs · **What happens:** live, die out, find · **To what, where:** South America, bones, coal mine

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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 (Titanoboa, dinosaurs), 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:7
# text = Titanoboa lived in South America about 60 million years ago, soon after the dinosaurs died out, and its bones were found in a coal mine in Colombia.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Titanoboa	Titanoboa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl:unmarked
10	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Titanoboa |  |  | South America |  | ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location |
| 2 | **die out** | past | the dinosaurs |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **find** | past · passive |  | food's bones |  | a coal mine in Colombia |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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 ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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