--- title: A chicken walks on two legs with its body level, much like small din… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the c… · tree and pragmatics description: A chicken walks on two legs with its body level, much like small dinosaurs; when scientists stuck a fake tail on chickens, they walked even more like dinosaurs. Who acts: chicken, scientists. 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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 (chicken, scientists), 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:12 # text = A chicken walks on two legs with its body level, much like small dinosaurs; when scientists stuck a fake tail on chickens, they walked even more like dinosaurs. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 much much ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 when when SCONJ WRB _ 19 mark _ _ 18 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | a chicken | | | two legs | | with chicken's body level; like small dinosaurs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | | 2 | **stick** | past | scientists | a fake tail | | | | on chickens | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme on chicken=Destination | | 3 | **walk** | past | scientists *= scientist* | | | | | like dinosaurs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:12`. **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, 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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