Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 12

A chicken walks on two legs with its body level, much like small dinosaurs; when scientists stuck a fake tail on chickens, they walked even more like dinosaurs.

Who acts: chicken, scientists · What happens: walk, stick · To what, where: two legs, fake tail

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 (chicken, scientists), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chicken	det
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walks	nsubj
3	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 legs	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 legs	nummod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walks	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 level	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 level	nmod:poss
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 level	compound
10	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walks	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dinosaurs	punct
12	much	much	ADV	_	15 dinosaurs	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 dinosaurs	case
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dinosaurs	amod
15	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walks	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 stuck	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 stuck	mark
18	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stuck	nsubj
19	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 walked	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tail	det
21	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tail	amod
22	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stuck	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 chickens	case
24	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stuck	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 walked	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 walked	nsubj
27	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walks	parataxis
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 walked	advmod
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 dinosaurs	case
31	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 walked	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	present	a chicken		two legs	with chicken's body level; like small dinosaurs	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory
2	stick	past	scientists	a fake tail		on chickens	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme on chicken=Destination
3	walk	past	scientists = scientist			like dinosaurs	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:12.

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.

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