Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 5

Pterosaurs, often called pterodactyls, were flying reptiles, close cousins of dinosaurs but not dinosaurs, and the first animals with backbones to fly.

Who acts: Pterosaurs · What happens: call, fly, be · To what, where: pterodactyls, flying reptiles · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Pterosaurs), 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	Pterosaurs	pterosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reptiles	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Pterosaurs	acl
5	pterodactyls	pterodactyl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pterosaurs	punct
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reptiles	cop
8	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 reptiles	amod
9	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cousins	punct
11	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cousins	amod
12	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reptiles	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 dinosaurs	case
14	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cousins	nmod
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 dinosaurs	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 dinosaurs	advmod
17	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reptiles	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 animals	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 animals	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 animals	det
21	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 animals	amod
22	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reptiles	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 backbones	case
24	backbones	backbone	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 animals	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fly	mark
26	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 backbones	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 reptiles	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle	Pterosaurs not said here	pterodactyls	often property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	Pterosaurs	flying reptiles and close cousins of dinosaurs but dinosaurs and the first animals with backbones		tree rules
4	fly	to-infinitive	Pterosaurs not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.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): no change. 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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