BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 8

T. rex lived closer in time to us than to Stegosaurus, and no human ever met a dinosaur, apart from the birds, which are dinosaurs' living relatives.

Who acts: T. rex, human, birds · What happens: live, meet, be · To what, where: us, dinosaur, 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 (T. rex, human, 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	T.	t.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rex	compound
2	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 lived	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 time	case
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lived	obl
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 Stegosaurus	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Stegosaurus	case
11	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 met	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 met	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 human	det
15	human	human	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	nsubj
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 met	advmod
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dinosaur	det
19	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 birds	punct
21	apart	apart	ADV	_	24 birds	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 birds	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 birds	det
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 met	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 relatives	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 relatives	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 relatives	cop
28	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 relatives	nmod:poss
29	'	'	PART	_	28 dinosaurs	case
30	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 relatives	amod
31	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 birds	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	T. rex		us	time	than Stegosaurus; close property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	no human	a dinosaur		ever		tree rules
3	is a	present	the birds	dinosaurs's living relatives				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:8.

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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