Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 5
Birds are living dinosaurs, descended from small feathered meat-eating dinosaurs, and there are about 11,000 kinds of birds alive today.
Who acts: Birds, 11,000 kinds · What happens: be, descend, eat, be about · To what, where: living dinosaurs
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, 11,000 kinds), 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 | _ | 6 descended | punct |
| 6 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dinosaurs | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 dinosaurs | case |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dinosaurs | amod |
| 9 | feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dinosaurs | amod |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eating | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 meat | punct |
| 12 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 dinosaurs | amod |
| 13 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 descended | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 are | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 are | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 are | expl |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dinosaurs | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 11,000 | advmod |
| 19 | 11,000 | 11,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 kinds | nummod |
| 20 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 are | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 birds | case |
| 22 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 kinds | nmod |
| 23 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kinds | amod |
| 24 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 are | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dinosaurs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Birds | living dinosaurs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | descend | participle | living dinosaurs not said here | from small feathered eating dinosaurs | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from dinosaur=Location | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | be about | present | 11,000 kinds of birds | there | today | vn exist-47.1 «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:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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