--- title: Bird legs and feet are covered in scales, like their dinosaur ancest… — The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living di… · tree and pragmatics description: Bird legs and feet are covered in scales, like their dinosaur ancestors; owls and grouse also have feathers on their feet for warmth. Who acts: owls. 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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 (owls), 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:10 # text = Bird legs and feet are covered in scales, like their dinosaur ancestors; owls and grouse also have feathers on their feet for warmth. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 15 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 grouse grouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 also also ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 20 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | present · passive | | Bird legs and feet | | | | in scales like legs's dinosaur ancestors | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in scale=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | owls and grouse | feathers | | legs's feet | | for warmth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | 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:10`. **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): R2-punct-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…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/9/) - next →: [The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/)