--- title: Dinosaurs ruled the land for about 160 million years, from about 230… — Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived · tree and pragmatics description: Dinosaurs ruled the land for about 160 million years, from about 230 to 66 million years ago, and they came in every size, from the chicken-sized Compsognathus to Diplodocus, longer than two buses. Who acts: Dinosaurs. 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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 (Dinosaurs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.lesson:0 # text = Dinosaurs ruled the land for about 160 million years, from about 230 to 66 million years ago, and they came in every size, from the chicken-sized Compsognathus to Diplodocus, longer than two buses. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 160 160 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 compound _ _ 8 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 230 230 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ _ 16 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 ago ago ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 in in ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 29 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 sized size VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 Compsognathus compsognathus NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Diplodocus Diplodocus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 37 than than ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 buses bus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 parataxis _ _ 40 . . 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 | **rule** | past | Dinosaurs | the land | | 230 to 66 | year | ago *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 2 | **come in** | past | Dinosaurs *= dinosaur* | every size | | the sized Compsognathus to Diplodocus | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from compsognathus=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **size** | participle | | | | | | | 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:075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.lesson:0`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Fossils: how we know about life long ago, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/15/) - next →: [Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they l…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives/)