Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, sentence 3

Birds are living dinosaurs: a chicken's scaly foot with three forward toes looks just like a dinosaur's in the museum because it was inherited from them.

Who acts: Birds, scaly foot · What happens: live, look, inherit · To what, where: dinosaurs, museum

This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» 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 (Birds, scaly foot), 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	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 living	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 living	aux
3	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 living	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 foot	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chicken	det
7	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foot	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 chicken	case
9	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 foot	amod
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dinosaurs	appos
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 toes	case
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 toes	nummod
13	forward	forward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 toes	amod
14	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 foot	nmod
15	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 foot	acl:relcl
16	just	just	ADV	_	19 dinosaur	advmod
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 dinosaur	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dinosaur	det
19	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looks	obl
20	's	's	PART	_	19 dinosaur	case
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 museum	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 museum	det
23	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dinosaur	nmod
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 inherited	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 inherited	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 inherited	aux:pass
27	inherited	inherit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 looks	advcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 inherited	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 living	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	present · progressive	Birds	dinosaurs		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dinosaur=Location
2	look	present	a chicken's scaly foot with three forward toes not said here		like a dinosaur in the museum	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	inherit	past · passive		museum	from Birds = bird	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from they=Source

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:033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.lesson:3.

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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