--- title: Titanoboa lived in a warm, steamy world of rivers and may have eaten… — Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuch… · tree and pragmatics description: Titanoboa lived in a warm, steamy world of rivers and may have eaten mostly big fish; whether warmth let it grow so big is still argued. Who acts: Titanoboa, warmth, fish. 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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 (Titanoboa, warmth, fish), 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:9 # text = Titanoboa lived in a warm, steamy world of rivers and may have eaten mostly big fish; whether warmth let it grow so big 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): no change 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 _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 steamy steamy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux _ _ 14 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 15 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 csubj:pass _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | Titanoboa | | | a warm steamy world of rivers | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | | 2 | **eat** | may · perfect | Titanoboa *not said here* | big fish | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | warmth | fish | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | infinitive | fish *not said here* | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» | 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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