Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 4

In The Flintstones cavemen keep dinosaurs as pets, but no person ever saw a living non-bird dinosaur: they were gone 66 million years before the first humans.

Who acts: cavemen, person · What happens: keep, see, live, be · To what, where: dinosaurs, Flintstones, living non-bird dinosaur

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 (cavemen, person), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 Flintstones	case
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Flintstones	det
3	Flintstones	flintstone	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obl
4	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 pets	case
8	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 person	det
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	nsubj
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 saw	advmod
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dinosaur	det
16	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 dinosaur	amod
17	non-bird	non-bird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dinosaur	amod
18	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 gone	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gone	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	cop
22	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 saw	parataxis
23	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 million	compound
24	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 years	nummod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gone	obl:unmarked
26	before	before	ADP	_	29 humans	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 humans	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 humans	amod
29	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gone	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	cavemen	dinosaurs	the Flintstones		as pets	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme in flintstone=Location
2	see	past	no person	a living non-bird dinosaur		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinosaur=Stimulus
3	live	gerund						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	cavemen = caveman			before the first humans; year	gone property	tree rules

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:4.

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 ×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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