BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 19
Birds are the living relatives of the dinosaurs.
Who acts: Birds · What happens: be · To what, where: living relatives
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 (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 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 relatives | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 relatives | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 relatives | det |
| 4 | living | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 relatives | amod |
| 5 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dinosaurs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dinosaurs | det |
| 8 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 relatives | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 relatives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Birds | the living relatives | of the dinosaurs | 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:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:19.
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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