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title: So the flying pterosaurs and the swimming plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and… — Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, m… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the flying pterosaurs and the swimming plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, even though they lived at the same time. Who acts: flying pterosaurs, pterosaurs. A sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» of the biology c
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# Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 1

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So the flying pterosaurs and the swimming plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, even though they lived at the same time.

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**Who acts:** flying pterosaurs, pterosaurs · **What happens:** fly, not be, live · **To what, where:** dinosaurs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» 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 (flying pterosaurs, pterosaurs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.lesson:1
# text = So the flying pterosaurs and the swimming plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, even though they lived at the same time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.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): no change
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	pterosaurs	pterosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	plesiosaurs	plesiosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mosasaurs	mosasaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ichthyosaurs	ichthyosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | the flying pterosaurs and the swimming plesiosaurs and mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs | dinosaurs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | pterosaurs *= pterosaur* |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): no change. **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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