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description: People and T. rex never lived together; about 66 million years separate them, and the oldest human ancestors are only a few million years old, and Stegosaurus died out longer before T. rex lived than T. rex lived before you. Who acts: People, million years, oldest human ancestors, Stegosaurus. A sen
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# The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 12

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People and T. rex never lived together; about 66 million years separate them, and the oldest human ancestors are only a few million years old, and Stegosaurus died out longer before T. rex lived than T. rex lived before you.

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**Who acts:** People, million years, oldest human ancestors, Stegosaurus, T. rex · **What happens:** not live together, separate, be, die out, live · **To what, where:** people, T. rex

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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 (People, million years, oldest human ancestors, Stegosaurus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:12
# text = People and T. rex never lived together; about 66 million years separate them, and the oldest human ancestors are only a few million years old, and Stegosaurus died out longer before T. rex lived than T. rex lived before you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	T.	t.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rex	rex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	separate	separate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
19	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
34	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	T.	t.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	rex	rex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	T.	t.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	rex	rex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
42	before	before	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **live together** | past | People and T. rex |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **separate** | present | million years | people |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the oldest human ancestors |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **die out** | past | Stegosaurus |  |  |  |  | long, out *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **live** | participle |  | T. rex *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **live** | participle | T. rex |  |  |  | before you |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before you=Location |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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