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The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs, sentence 1

But the dinosaurs did not all vanish: one branch of small feathered meat-eaters survived, and their great-great-grandchildren scratch for worms in the farmyard today; birds are living dinosaurs.

Who acts: dinosaurs, one branch, great great grandchildren, birds · What happens: do, not vanish, survive, scratch, live · To what, where: farmyard, dinosaurs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs» 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 (dinosaurs, one branch, great great grandchildren, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

ccdetnsubjadvmodadvmodxcomppunctnummodnsubjcaseamodamodcompoundpunctnmodparataxispunctccnmod:possamodpunctamodpunctnsubjconjcaseoblcasedetoblobl:unmarkedpunctnsubjauxadvclobjpunctrootButCCONJtheDETdinosaursNOUNdidVERBnotPARTallADVvanishVERB:PUNCToneNUMbranchNOUNofADPsmallADJfeatheredADJmeatNOUN-PUNCTeatersNOUNsurvivedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheirPRONgreatADJ-PUNCTgreatADJ-PUNCTgrandchildrenNOUNscratchVERBforADPwormsNOUNinADPtheDETfarmyardNOUNtodayNOUN;PUNCTbirdsNOUNareAUXlivingVERBdinosaursNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_4 didcc
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 dinosaursdet
3dinosaursdinosaurNOUNNumber=Plur4 didnsubj
4diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5notnotPARTPolarity=Neg7 vanishadvmod
6allallADV_7 vanishadvmod
7vanishvanishVERBVerbForm=Inf4 didxcomp
8::PUNCT_10 branchpunct
9oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card10 branchnummod
10branchbranchNOUNNumber=Sing17 survivednsubj
11ofofADP_16 eaterscase
12smallsmallADJDegree=Pos16 eatersamod
13featheredfeatheredADJDegree=Pos16 eatersamod
14meatmeatNOUNNumber=Sing16 eaterscompound
15--PUNCT_14 meatpunct
16eaterseaterNOUNNumber=Plur10 branchnmod
17survivedsurviveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 vanishparataxis
18,,PUNCT_26 scratchpunct
19andandCCONJ_26 scratchcc
20theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 grandchildrennmod:poss
21greatgreatADJDegree=Pos25 grandchildrenamod
22--PUNCT_21 greatpunct
23greatgreatADJDegree=Pos25 grandchildrenamod
24--PUNCT_23 greatpunct
25grandchildrengrandchildrenNOUNNumber=Plur26 scratchnsubj
26scratchscratchVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 survivedconj
27forforADP_28 wormscase
28wormswormNOUNNumber=Plur26 scratchobl
29ininADP_31 farmyardcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 farmyarddet
31farmyardfarmyardNOUNNumber=Sing26 scratchobl
32todaytodayNOUNNumber=Sing26 scratchobl:unmarked
33;;PUNCT_36 livingpunct
34birdsbirdNOUNNumber=Plur36 livingnsubj
35arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin36 livingaux
36livingliveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 didadvcl
37dinosaursdinosaurNOUNNumber=Plur36 livingobj
38..PUNCT_4 didpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastthe dinosaurstree rules
2not vanishthe dinosaurs not said hereall propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3survivepastone branch of small feathered meat eatersvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4scratchpresentdinosaurs's great great grandchildrenthe farmyardtodayfor wormsvn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for worm=Theme in farmyard=Location
5livepresent · progressivebirdsdinosaursvn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dinosaur=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:076-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds.lesson:1.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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