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A sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, ples…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning/) / 16 # Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 16 Humans appeared about 300,000 years ago, while the non-bird dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. **Who acts:** Humans, non-bird dinosaurs · **What happens:** appear, die out 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 (Humans, non-bird dinosaurs), 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:16 # text = Humans appeared about 300,000 years ago, while the non-bird dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. # 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): R5-strong ×4 1 Humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 300,000 300000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl:unmarked 6 ago ago ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 non-bird non-bird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 compound _ _ 15 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl:unmarked 17 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | Humans | | | | | ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **die out** | past | the non-bird dinosaurs | | | | | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.lesson:16`. **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 ×4. **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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