--- title: The first humans of our kind appeared only about 300,000 years ago,… — Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived · tree and pragmatics description: The first humans of our kind appeared only about 300,000 years ago, and Stegosaurus lived longer before T. rex than T. rex lived before us. Who acts: first humans, Stegosaurus, T. rex. 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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 (first humans, Stegosaurus, T. rex), 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:16 # text = The first humans of our kind appeared only about 300,000 years ago, and Stegosaurus lived longer before T. rex than T. rex lived before us. # 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): R5-strong ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 300,000 300000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked 12 ago ago ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 Stegosaurus Stegosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 18 before before ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 T. T. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 rex rex NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 T. T. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 rex rex NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl _ _ 25 before before ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **appear** | past | the first humans of our kind | | | | | ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | past | Stegosaurus | | | T. rex than T. rex | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before rex=Location | | 3 | **live** | past | T. rex *not said here* | | | | before us | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before we=Location | 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:16`. **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. **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: [Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they l…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives/15/) - next →: [The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives/)