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title: In 2016 a feathered dinosaur tail was reported in amber from Myanmar… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the c… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2016 a feathered dinosaur tail was reported in amber from Myanmar, with feathers and bones kept in 3D; amber is hardened tree resin. Who acts: amber. A sentence of the lesson «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with
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# Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 9

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In 2016 a feathered dinosaur tail was reported in amber from Myanmar, with feathers and bones kept in 3D; amber is hardened tree resin.

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**Who acts:** amber · **What happens:** report, keep, be, resin · **To what, where:** feathered dinosaur tail, 2016, feathers, 3D

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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 (amber), 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:9
# text = In 2016 a feathered dinosaur tail was reported in amber from Myanmar, with feathers and bones kept in 3D; amber is hardened tree resin.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	feathered	feathered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	3D	3d	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	hardened	harden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	resin	resin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | past · passive |  | a feathered dinosaur tail |  | 2016 |  | in amber; from Myanmar | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | participle · passive |  | feathers and bones |  | 3D |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in 3d=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | harden *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **resin** |  | amber |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×1, R8-pos-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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