Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 0

Birds are living dinosaurs: they come from small, feathered, meat-eating dinosaurs, so the drumstick on your plate really is a dinosaur leg.

Who acts: Birds, drumstick · What happens: be, come, eat · To what, where: living dinosaurs, small feathered eating dinosaurs, dinosaur leg

This is a sentence of the lesson «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» 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 (Birds, drumstick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dinosaurs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dinosaurs	cop
3	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dinosaurs	amod
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dinosaurs	acl:relcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 small	case
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dinosaurs	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feathered	punct
11	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dinosaurs	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dinosaurs	punct
13	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eating	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 meat	punct
15	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 dinosaurs	amod
16	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 leg	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	28 leg	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 drumstick	det
20	drumstick	drumstick	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leg	nsubj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 plate	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 plate	nmod:poss
23	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drumstick	nmod
24	really	really	ADV	_	28 leg	advmod
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 leg	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 leg	det
27	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leg	compound
28	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dinosaurs	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dinosaurs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Birds	living dinosaurs	tree rules
2	come	present	Birds = bird	small feathered eating dinosaurs	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dinosaur=Theme
3	eat	gerund			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	the drumstick on your plate	a dinosaur leg	tree rules

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, 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:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken.lesson:0.

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. 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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