--- title: Many dinosaurs had feathers, and birds are living dinosaurs. — Fossils · tree and pragmatics description: Many dinosaurs had feathers, and birds are living dinosaurs. Who acts: Many dinosaurs, birds. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/57-fossils/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Fossils](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/57-fossils/) / 17 # Fossils, sentence 17 Many dinosaurs had feathers, and birds are living dinosaurs. **Who acts:** Many dinosaurs, birds · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** feathers, living dinosaurs 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 (Many dinosaurs, birds), 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:17 # text = Many dinosaurs had feathers, and birds are living dinosaurs. # 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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | past | Many dinosaurs | feathers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | birds | living dinosaurs | | | | | 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:geography:057-fossils.lesson:17`. **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/). - ← previous: [Fossils, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/57-fossils/16/) - next →: [Fossils, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/57-fossils/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/57-fossils/)