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title: The cassowary is a big flightless bird with a crest, dagger-like cla… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the c… · tree and pragmatics
description: The cassowary is a big flightless bird with a crest, dagger-like claws and a deep booming call, often called the living bird that looks most like a dinosaur; it can be dangerous, so people should never go close. Who acts: cassowary, deep booming call, living bird, people. A sentence of the lesson «F
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# Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 13

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The cassowary is a big flightless bird with a crest, dagger-like claws and a deep booming call, often called the living bird that looks most like a dinosaur; it can be dangerous, so people should never go close.

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**Who acts:** cassowary, deep booming call, living bird, people · **What happens:** be, call, look, not go · **To what, where:** big flightless bird, living bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cassowary, deep booming call, living bird, people), 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:13
# text = The cassowary is a big flightless bird with a crest, dagger-like claws and a deep booming call, often called the living bird that looks most like a dinosaur; it can be dangerous, so people should never go close.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cassowary	cassowary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	flightless	flightless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	booming	booming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
37	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
40	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
41	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
44	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the cassowary | a big flightless bird |  |  |  | with a crest and like claws and a deep booming call | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a deep booming call *not said here* | the living bird |  |  |  | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | present | the living bird |  |  |  |  | like a dinosaur | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | can | cassowary |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **go** | should | people |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:13`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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