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title: Archaeopteryx, about 150 million years old, had feathered wings but… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Archaeopteryx, about 150 million years old, had feathered wings but also teeth, claws and a long bony tail; it was found in Germany in 1861, soon after Darwin's book. Who acts: Archaeopteryx. A sentence of the lesson «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» of the biolo
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# Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 7

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Archaeopteryx, about 150 million years old, had feathered wings but also teeth, claws and a long bony tail; it was found in Germany in 1861, soon after Darwin's book.

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

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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), 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:7
# text = Archaeopteryx, about 150 million years old, had feathered wings but also teeth, claws and a long bony tail; it was found in Germany in 1861, soon after Darwin's book.
# 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Archaeopteryx	archaeopteryx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	feathered	feathered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	bony	bony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	1861	1861	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
32	after	after	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **have** | past | Archaeopteryx | feathered wings but teeth and claws and a long bony tail |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive |  | tail |  | Germany | after Darwin's book | in 1861; soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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:7`.

**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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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