Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 16
The last big dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, and humans appeared only about 300,000 years ago.
Who acts: last big dinosaurs, humans · What happens: die out, appear
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths 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 (last big dinosaurs, humans), 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 | 4 dinosaurs | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dinosaurs | amod |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dinosaurs | amod |
| 4 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 died | nsubj |
| 5 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 died | compound:prt |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 million | advmod |
| 8 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 million | compound |
| 9 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 died | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 appeared | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 appeared | cc |
| 14 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 appeared | nsubj |
| 15 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 died | conj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 300,000 | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 300,000 | advmod |
| 18 | 300,000 | 300,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 appeared | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 died | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die out | past | the last big dinosaurs | ago property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | humans | ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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 ×5. 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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