--- title: Thousands of feathered dinosaur fossils have been found in China sin… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the c… · tree and pragmatics description: Thousands of feathered dinosaur fossils have been found in China since 1996, kept by fine volcanic ash; Sinosauropteryx had a striped orange-brown tail. Who acts: Sinosauropteryx. 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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 (Sinosauropteryx), 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:8 # text = Thousands of feathered dinosaur fossils have been found in China since 1996, kept by fine volcanic ash; Sinosauropteryx 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 feathered feathered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 since since ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 1996 1996 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 volcanic volcanic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 ash ash NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 Sinosauropteryx Sinosauropteryx PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 23 striped striped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 24 orange orange NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present · perfect · passive | | Thousands of feathered dinosaur fossils | | China | since 1996 | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **keep** | participle | | | | | | by fine volcanic ash | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by ash=Location | | 3 | **have** | past | Sinosauropteryx | 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:8`. **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): 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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