--- title: Birds are living dinosaurs: they come from small, feathered, meat-ea… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the c… · tree and pragmatics description: Birds are living dinosaurs: they come from small, feathered, meat-eating dinosaurs, so the drumstick on your plate really is a dinosaur leg. Who acts: Birds, drumstick. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Birds, drumstick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken.lesson:0 # text = Birds are living dinosaurs: they come from small, feathered, meat-eating dinosaurs, so the drumstick on your plate really is a dinosaur leg. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3 1 Birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 feathered feathered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ _ 16 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 drumstick drumstick NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 really really ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | living dinosaurs | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | present | Birds *= bird* | small feathered eating dinosaurs | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dinosaur=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | the drumstick on your plate | a dinosaur leg | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken.lesson:0`. **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 ×3. **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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