Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 8

Thousands of feathered dinosaur fossils have been found in China since 1996, kept by fine volcanic ash; Sinosauropteryx had a striped orange-brown tail.

Who acts: Sinosauropteryx · What happens: find, keep, have · To what, where: Thousands, China, 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 (Sinosauropteryx), 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	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 fossils	case
3	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fossils	amod
4	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fossils	compound
5	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 found	aux:pass
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 China	case
10	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
11	since	since	ADP	_	12 1996	case
12	1996	1996	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 found	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
14	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 found	advcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 ash	case
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ash	amod
17	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ash	amod
18	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	Sinosauropteryx	Sinosauropteryx	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tail	det
23	striped	striped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tail	amod
24	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tail	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 orange	punct
26	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tail	amod
27	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · perfect · passive		Thousands of feathered dinosaur fossils	China	since 1996		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	keep	participle					by fine volcanic ash	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by ash=Location
3	have	past	Sinosauropteryx	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:8.

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): 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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