Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 7
Archaeopteryx, about 150 million years old, had feathered wings but also teeth, claws and a long bony tail; it was found in Germany in 1861, soon after Darwin's book.
Who acts: Archaeopteryx · What happens: have, find · To what, where: feathered wings, tail, Germany
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), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 million | advmod |
| 4 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 million | compound |
| 5 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 old | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Archaeopteryx | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Archaeopteryx | punct |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wings | amod |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 teeth | cc |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 teeth | advmod |
| 14 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wings | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 claws | punct |
| 16 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 teeth | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tail | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tail | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tail | amod |
| 20 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tail | amod |
| 21 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 teeth | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 had | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Germany | case |
| 27 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 1861 | case |
| 29 | 1861 | 1861 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 found | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 soon | punct |
| 31 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 found | advmod |
| 32 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 book | case |
| 33 | Darwin | Darwin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 book | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 Darwin | case |
| 35 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | 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 | have | past | Archaeopteryx | feathered wings but teeth and claws and a long bony tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | tail | Germany | after Darwin's book | in 1861; soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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:7.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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