Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 1

Archaeopteryx, 150 million years old and found in Germany in 1861, had wings and feathers like a bird but teeth, claws and a bony tail like a dinosaur, just the in-between kind Darwin's idea expected.

Who acts: Archaeopteryx, the · What happens: find, have, expect · To what, where: Germany, wings

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 (Archaeopteryx, the), 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	Archaeopteryx	Archaeopteryx	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
3	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 million	compound
4	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Archaeopteryx	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 old	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Germany	case
10	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 1861	case
12	1861	1861	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 found	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Archaeopteryx	punct
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 feathers	cc
17	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wings	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 bird	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bird	det
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wings	nmod
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 teeth	cc
22	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wings	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 claws	punct
24	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wings	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tail	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tail	det
27	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tail	amod
28	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 claws	conj
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 dinosaur	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 dinosaur	det
31	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 claws	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 expected	punct
33	just	just	ADV	_	42 expected	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 expected	nsubj
35	in	in	ADP	_	41 idea	case
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 in	punct
37	between	between	ADP	_	41 idea	case
38	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Darwin	amod
39	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 idea	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 Darwin	case
41	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 the	nmod
42	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	participle	Archaeopteryx not said here		Germany	in 1861	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	Archaeopteryx	wings and feathers but teeth and claws like a dinosaur and a bony tail		like a bird	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	expect	past	the				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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:1.

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 ×1, 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.

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