Fossils: how we know about life long ago, sentence 13

Archaeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Germany, with feathers and wings like a bird but teeth, claws and a bony tail; it was found in 1861.

Who acts: Archaeopteryx · What happens: live, be, find · To what, where: Germany, mammoth, 1861

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils: how we know about life long ago» 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 (Archaeopteryx), 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	Archaeopteryx	Archaeopteryx	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 150	advmod
4	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 million	compound
5	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ago	obl:unmarked
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 lived	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Germany	cop
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 Germany	advmod
12	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 what	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 feathers	case
15	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wings	cc
17	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 feathers	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 bird	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bird	det
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feathers	nmod
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 teeth	cc
22	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 feathers	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 claws	punct
24	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 feathers	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tail	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tail	det
27	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tail	amod
28	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 claws	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 found	aux:pass
32	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 lived	parataxis
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 1861	case
34	1861	1861	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 found	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Archaeopteryx				with feathers like a bird and wings but teeth and claws and a bony tail; ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in what=Location
2	is a	present		Germany		now		tree rules
3	find	past · passive		mammoth	1861			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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:074-fossils-life-long-ago.lesson:13.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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