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title: The first dinosaur to be scientifically named was Megalosaurus, in E… — Fossils · tree and pragmatics
description: The first dinosaur to be scientifically named was Megalosaurus, in England in 1824. Who acts: first dinosaur. A sentence of the lesson «Fossils» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fossils, sentence 16

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The first dinosaur to be scientifically named was Megalosaurus, in England in 1824.

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**Who acts:** first dinosaur · **What happens:** name, be · **To what, where:** Megalosaurus, England

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first dinosaur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:057-fossils.lesson:16
# text = The first dinosaur to be scientifically named was Megalosaurus, in England in 1824.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 057-fossils.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): no change
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	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	scientifically	scientifically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	Megalosaurus	Megalosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1824	1824	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | to-infinitive · passive | the first dinosaur *not said here* |  |  |  |  | scientifically *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the first dinosaur | Megalosaurus |  | England |  | in 1824 | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:geography:057-fossils.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): no change. **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/).

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