Dinosaurs and life long ago, sentence 3

No person ever saw a living dinosaur — the first humans appeared more than 60 million years after the dinosaurs died out — but birds are living relatives of dinosaurs.

Who acts: person, first humans, dinosaurs, birds · What happens: see, appear, die out, be · To what, where: living dinosaur, living relatives

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs and life long ago» 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 (person, first humans, dinosaurs, 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 saw	advmod
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dinosaur	det
6	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dinosaur	compound
7	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 person	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 humans	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 humans	amod
11	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 appeared	nsubj
12	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	16 million	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	13 more	fixed
15	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 million	compound
16	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 appeared	obl
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	21 died	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dinosaurs	det
20	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 died	nsubj
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 appeared	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 died	compound:prt
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 living	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 relatives	cc
25	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 relatives	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 relatives	cop
27	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 relatives	amod
28	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 appeared	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 dinosaurs	case
30	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 relatives	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	no person	a living dinosaur	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinosaur=Stimulus
2	appear	past	the first humans		year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die out	past	the dinosaurs				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a	present	birds	living relatives		of 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:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:3.

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 ×2, 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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