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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 (cavemen, person), 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:4 # text = In The Flintstones cavemen keep dinosaurs as pets, but no person ever saw a living non-bird dinosaur: they were gone 66 million years before the first humans. # 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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Flintstones flintstone PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 cavemen caveman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 advmod _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 amod _ _ 17 non-bird non-bird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ _ 23 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 compound _ _ 24 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 before before ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 amod _ _ 29 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | cavemen | dinosaurs | | the Flintstones | | as pets | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme in flintstone=Location | | 2 | **see** | past | no person | a living non-bird dinosaur | | | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinosaur=Stimulus | | 3 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | cavemen *= caveman* | | | | before the first humans; year | gone *property* | tree rules | 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:4`. **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 ×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. 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