--- title: Birds are living dinosaurs, descended from small feathered meat-eati… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the c… · tree and pragmatics description: Birds are living dinosaurs, descended from small feathered meat-eating dinosaurs, and there are about 11,000 kinds of birds alive today. Who acts: Birds, 11,000 kinds. 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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, 11,000 kinds), 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:5 # text = Birds are living dinosaurs, descended from small feathered meat-eating dinosaurs, and there are about 11,000 kinds of birds alive today. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 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 , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 descended descend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 9 feathered feathered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 10 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 17 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 11,000 11,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 24 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is a** | present | Birds | living dinosaurs | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **descend** | participle | | living dinosaurs *not said here* | | | | from small feathered eating dinosaurs | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from dinosaur=Location | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **be about** | present | 11,000 kinds of birds | | | there | today | | vn exist-47.1 «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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. 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