Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 2

Since 1996 thousands of feathered dinosaurs have turned up in China, kept in fine volcanic ash, and one, Sinosauropteryx, even had a striped orange-brown tail.

Who acts: thousands, one · What happens: turn up, keep, have · To what, where: 1996, China, fine volcanic ash, striped orange brown 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 (thousands, one), 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	Since	since	SCONJ	_	8 turned	mark
2	1996	1996	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 turned	obl
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turned	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dinosaurs	case
5	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dinosaurs	amod
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	aux
8	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 turned	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 China	case
11	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 turned	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 ash	case
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ash	amod
16	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ash	amod
17	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 one	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 had	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Sinosauropteryx	punct
22	Sinosauropteryx	Sinosauropteryx	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 one	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 had	advmod
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tail	det
27	striped	striped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tail	amod
28	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tail	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 orange	punct
30	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tail	amod
31	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	turn up	present · perfect	thousands of feathered dinosaurs	1996	China	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location
2	keep	participle	thousands of feathered dinosaurs not said here		fine volcanic ash	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in ash=Location
3	have	past	one	a striped orange brown tail		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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, 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:2.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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