Fossils, sentence 7
Still, they tell us that many dinosaurs had feathers and that birds are living dinosaurs.
Who acts: scientists, many dinosaurs, birds · What happens: tell, have, live · To what, where: us, feathers, dinosaurs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils» of the geography 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 (scientists, many dinosaurs, birds), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 4 tell | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dinosaurs | amod |
| 8 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 10 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 living | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 living | mark |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 living | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 living | aux |
| 15 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 had | conj |
| 16 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 living | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | 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 | tell speech: assert | present | scientists = scientist | us | still | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | past | many dinosaurs | feathers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | ||||
| 3 | live | present · progressive | birds | dinosaurs | vn 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:geography:057-fossils.lesson:7.
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. 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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