--- title: Tyrannosaurus rex lived about 68 to 66 million years ago in western… — Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived · tree and pragmatics description: Tyrannosaurus rex lived about 68 to 66 million years ago in western North America, was about 12 metres long and had thick teeth up to about 30 centimetres with the root, able to crush bone. Who acts: Tyrannosaurus rex, thick teeth. 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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 (Tyrannosaurus rex, thick teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.lesson:4 # text = Tyrannosaurus rex lived about 68 to 66 million years ago in western North America, was about 12 metres long and had thick teeth up to about 30 centimetres with the root, able to crush bone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 rex rex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 68 68 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 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=3:obl:unmarked 10 ago ago ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 20 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 parataxis _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 parataxis _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 crush crush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 . . 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 | **live** | past | Tyrannosaurus rex | 68 | | western North America | | to 66; ago, long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location | | 2 | **is a** | past | | 12 metres | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have up** | past | Tyrannosaurus rex *not said here* | thick teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 4 | **crush** | to-infinitive | thick teeth *not said here* | bone | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | 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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