Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 16
Humans appeared about 300,000 years ago, while the non-bird dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago.
Who acts: Humans, non-bird dinosaurs · What happens: appear, die out
This is a sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» 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 (Humans, non-bird dinosaurs), 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 | Humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 300,000 | advmod |
| 4 | 300,000 | 300000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 appeared | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 died | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 died | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dinosaurs | det |
| 10 | non-bird | non-bird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dinosaurs | amod |
| 11 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 died | nsubj |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeared | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 died | compound:prt |
| 14 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 million | compound |
| 15 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 died | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Humans | ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die out | past | the non-bird dinosaurs | ago property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.lesson:16.
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 ×4. 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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