Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived, sentence 16
The first humans of our kind appeared only about 300,000 years ago, and Stegosaurus lived longer before T. rex than T. rex lived before us.
Who acts: first humans, Stegosaurus, T. rex · What happens: appear, live · To what, where: T. rex
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived» 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 (first humans, Stegosaurus, T. rex), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 humans | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 humans | amod |
| 3 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 kind | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 humans | nmod |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 300,000 | advmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 300,000 | advmod |
| 10 | 300,000 | 300000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 appeared | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lived | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lived | cc |
| 15 | Stegosaurus | Stegosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appeared | conj |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 lived | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 rex | case |
| 19 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 rex | compound |
| 20 | rex | rex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obl |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 rex | case |
| 22 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 rex | compound |
| 23 | rex | rex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rex | nmod |
| 24 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 rex | acl |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 us | case |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 lived | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the first humans of our kind | ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | Stegosaurus | T. rex than T. rex | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before rex=Location | |||
| 3 | live | past | T. rex not said here | before us | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before we=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:075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.lesson:16.
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. 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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