---
title: Still, they tell us that many dinosaurs had feathers and that birds… — Fossils · tree and pragmatics
description: Still, they tell us that many dinosaurs had feathers and that birds are living dinosaurs. Who acts: scientists, 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/57-fossils/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 7

# Fossils, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Still, they tell us that many dinosaurs had feathers and that birds are living dinosaurs.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** scientists, many dinosaurs, birds · **What happens:** tell, have, live · **To what, where:** us, feathers, dinosaurs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (scientists, 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:7
# text = Still, they tell us that many dinosaurs had feathers and that 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | scientists *= scientist* |  | us |  | still |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | many dinosaurs | feathers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | present · progressive | birds | dinosaurs |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dinosaur=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:7`.

**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. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Fossils, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/57-fossils/6/)
- next →: [Fossils, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/57-fossils/8/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/57-fossils/)