BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 18
Non-bird dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago; humans appeared only about 300,000 years ago, so no human ever saw one.
Who acts: Non-bird dinosaurs, humans, human · What happens: die out, appear, see · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world 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 (Non-bird dinosaurs, humans, human), 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 | Non-bird | non-bird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dinosaurs | amod |
| 2 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 died | compound:prt |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 million | advmod |
| 6 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 million | compound |
| 7 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 died | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
| 11 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 died | parataxis |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 about | advmod |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 300,000 | advmod |
| 15 | 300,000 | 300000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 appeared | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 saw | advmod |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 human | det |
| 21 | human | human | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 saw | advmod |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 died | parataxis |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 saw | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die out | past | Non-bird 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 | ||||
| 3 | see | past | no human | one | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:18.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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