The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 12
People and T. rex never lived together; about 66 million years separate them, and the oldest human ancestors are only a few million years old, and Stegosaurus died out longer before T. rex lived than T. rex lived before you.
Who acts: People, million years, oldest human ancestors, Stegosaurus, T. rex · What happens: not live together, separate, be, die out, live · To what, where: people, T. rex
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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 (People, million years, oldest human ancestors, Stegosaurus), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rex | cc |
| 3 | T. | t. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rex | compound |
| 4 | rex | rex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 People | conj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 separate | punct |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 million | advmod |
| 10 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 million | compound |
| 11 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 separate | nsubj |
| 13 | separate | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 separate | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 old | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 old | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ancestors | det |
| 18 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 ancestors | amod |
| 19 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ancestors | amod |
| 20 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 old | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 old | cop |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 old | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 years | det |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 years | amod |
| 25 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 years | nummod |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 old | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 separate | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 died | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 died | cc |
| 30 | Stegosaurus | Stegosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 died | nsubj |
| 31 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADV | _ | 31 died | advmod |
| 33 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 died | advmod |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 36 rex | case |
| 35 | T. | t. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 rex | compound |
| 36 | rex | rex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 longer | obl |
| 37 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 rex | acl |
| 38 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 41 lived | mark |
| 39 | T. | t. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 rex | compound |
| 40 | rex | rex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 lived | nsubj |
| 41 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 longer | advcl |
| 42 | before | before | ADP | _ | 43 you | case |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 lived | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live together | past | People and T. rex | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | separate | present | million years | people | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the oldest human ancestors | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | die out | past | Stegosaurus | long, out property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | live | participle | T. rex not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | live | participle | T. rex | before you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before you=Location |
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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:12.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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