--- title: Archaeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Germa… — Fossils: how we know about life long ago · tree and pragmatics description: Archaeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Germany, with feathers and wings like a bird but teeth, claws and a bony tail; it was found in 1861. Who acts: Archaeopteryx. 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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 (Archaeopteryx), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:074-fossils-life-long-ago.lesson:13 # text = Archaeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Germany, with feathers and wings like a bird but teeth, claws and a bony tail; it was found in 1861. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 074-fossils-life-long-ago.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 150 150 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 compound _ _ 5 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl:unmarked 7 ago ago ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 12 Germany Germany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 bony bony ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 1861 1861 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | Archaeopteryx | | | | | with feathers like a bird and wings but teeth and claws and a bony tail; ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in what=Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | | Germany | | | now | | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | past · passive | | mammoth | | 1861 | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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:074-fossils-life-long-ago.lesson:13`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Fossils: how we know about life long ago, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/12/) - next →: [Fossils: how we know about life long ago, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/)