The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 6
Cartoon cavemen who grunt and ride dinosaurs are pure fantasy: dinosaurs died out about 66 million years before the first humans.
Who acts: Cartoon cavemen, dinosaurs · What happens: grunt, ride, be, die out · To what, where: dinosaurs, pure fantasy
This is a sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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 (Cartoon cavemen, dinosaurs), 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 | Cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cavemen | compound |
| 2 | cavemen | caveman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fantasy | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 grunt | nsubj |
| 4 | grunt | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cavemen | acl:relcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ride | cc |
| 6 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grunt | conj |
| 7 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ride | obj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fantasy | cop |
| 9 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fantasy | amod |
| 10 | fantasy | fantasy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 died | punct |
| 12 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 died | nsubj |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fantasy | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 died | compound:prt |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 million | advmod |
| 16 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 million | compound |
| 17 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 died | obl |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 humans | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 humans | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 humans | amod |
| 22 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 died | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fantasy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grunt | present | Cartoon cavemen | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ride | present | Cartoon cavemen not said here | dinosaurs | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Cartoon cavemen | pure fantasy | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die out | past | dinosaurs | before the first humans; year | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:history:001-the-first-people.lesson:6.
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 ×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.
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