--- title: Since 1996 thousands of feathered dinosaurs have turned up in China,… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the c… · tree and pragmatics description: Since 1996 thousands of feathered dinosaurs have turned up in China, kept in fine volcanic ash, and one, Sinosauropteryx, even had a striped orange-brown tail. Who acts: thousands, one. 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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 (thousands, one), 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:2 # text = Since 1996 thousands of feathered dinosaurs have turned up in China, kept in fine volcanic ash, and one, Sinosauropteryx, even had a striped orange-brown tail. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Since since SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 2 1996 1996 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nummod 3 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 feathered feathered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advcl 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 volcanic volcanic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 ash ash NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Sinosauropteryx Sinosauropteryx PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 even even ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 27 striped striped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 28 orange orange NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn up** | present · perfect | thousands of feathered dinosaurs | 1996 | | China | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location | | 2 | **keep** | participle | thousands of feathered dinosaurs *not said here* | | | fine volcanic ash | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in ash=Location | | 3 | **have** | past | one | a striped orange brown tail | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | 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:2`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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