--- title: Birds are living dinosaurs: a chicken's scaly foot with three forwar… — Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight · tree and pragmatics description: Birds are living dinosaurs: a chicken's scaly foot with three forward toes looks just like a dinosaur's in the museum because it was inherited from them. Who acts: Birds, scaly foot. 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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 (Birds, scaly foot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.lesson:3 # text = Birds are living dinosaurs: a chicken's scaly foot with three forward toes looks just like a dinosaur's in the museum because it was inherited from them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.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 Birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 scaly scaly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 13 forward forward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 15 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 just just ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 museum museum NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 inherited inherit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present · progressive | Birds | dinosaurs | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dinosaur=Location | | 2 | **look** | present | a chicken's scaly foot with three forward toes *not said here* | | | | | like a dinosaur in the museum | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **inherit** | past · passive | | museum | | | | from Birds *= bird* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from they=Source | 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:033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.lesson:3`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/2/) - next →: [Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/)