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title: Dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, millions of years bef… — The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, millions of years before any humans existed. Who acts: Dinosaurs, humans. A sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 14

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Dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, millions of years before any humans existed.

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**Who acts:** Dinosaurs, humans · **What happens:** die out, exist · **To what, where:** millions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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 (Dinosaurs, humans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:001-the-first-people.lesson:14
# text = Dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, millions of years before any humans existed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 001-the-first-people.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): R5-strong ×3
1	Dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die out** | past | Dinosaurs | millions of years |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **exist** | past | any humans |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:history:001-the-first-people.lesson:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×3. **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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