The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs, sentence 16

Crocodiles survived the asteroid too, and they are closer relatives of birds than of lizards.

Who acts: Crocodiles · What happens: survive, be · To what, where: asteroid, closer relatives

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 (Crocodiles), 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	Crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 survived	nsubj
2	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 asteroid	det
4	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 survived	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	2 survived	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 relatives	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 relatives	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 relatives	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 relatives	cop
10	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 relatives	amod
11	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 survived	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 birds	case
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 relatives	nmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 lizards	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 lizards	case
16	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 birds	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 survived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	past	Crocodiles	the asteroid					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme asteroid=Circumstance
2	is a	present	crocodiles = crocodile	closer relatives				of birds than lizards	tree rules

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: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): 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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