--- title: But the dinosaurs did not all vanish: one branch of small feathered… — The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living di… · tree and pragmatics description: But the dinosaurs did not all vanish: one branch of small feathered meat-eaters survived, and their great-great-grandchildren scratch for worms in the farmyard today; birds are living dinosaurs. Who acts: dinosaurs, one branch, great great grandchildren, birds. 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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, one branch, great great grandchildren, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:076-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds.lesson:1 # text = But the dinosaurs did not all vanish: one branch of small feathered meat-eaters survived, and their great-great-grandchildren scratch for worms in the farmyard today; birds are living dinosaurs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 076-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 6 all all ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 7 vanish vanish VERB NN VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 13 feathered feathered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 17 survived survive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 21 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 grandchildren grandchildren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 scratch scratch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 farmyard farmyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 37 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the dinosaurs | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **vanish** | | the dinosaurs *not said here* | | | | | all *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **survive** | past | one branch of small feathered meat eaters | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **scratch** | present | dinosaurs's great great grandchildren | | | the farmyard | today | for worms | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for worm=Theme in farmyard=Location | | 5 | **live** | present · progressive | birds | dinosaurs | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dinosaur=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:076-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds.lesson:1`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/)