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title: Archaeopteryx, 150 million years old and found in Germany in 1861, h… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Archaeopteryx, 150 million years old and found in Germany in 1861, had wings and feathers like a bird but teeth, claws and a bony tail like a dinosaur, just the in-between kind Darwin's idea expected. Who acts: Archaeopteryx, the. A sentence of the lesson «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to 
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# Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 1

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Archaeopteryx, 150 million years old and found in Germany in 1861, had wings and feathers like a bird but teeth, claws and a bony tail like a dinosaur, just the in-between kind Darwin's idea expected.

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**Who acts:** Archaeopteryx, the · **What happens:** find, have, expect · **To what, where:** Germany, wings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» of the biology 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 (Archaeopteryx, the), 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:1
# text = Archaeopteryx, 150 million years old and found in Germany in 1861, had wings and feathers like a bird but teeth, claws and a bony tail like a dinosaur, just the in-between kind Darwin's idea expected.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Archaeopteryx	Archaeopteryx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1861	1861	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	bony	bony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	nsubj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	_
37	between	between	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
42	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | participle | Archaeopteryx *not said here* |  |  | Germany |  | in 1861 | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | Archaeopteryx | wings and feathers but teeth and claws like a dinosaur and a bony tail |  |  |  | like a bird | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 3 | **expect** | past | the |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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 ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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