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title: Cartoon cavemen who grunt and ride dinosaurs are pure fantasy: dinos… — The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cartoon cavemen who grunt and ride dinosaurs are pure fantasy: dinosaurs died out about 66 million years before the first humans. Who acts: Cartoon cavemen, dinosaurs. A sentence of the lesson «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history course of Mova's primary school wit
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# The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters, sentence 6

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Cartoon cavemen who grunt and ride dinosaurs are pure fantasy: dinosaurs died out about 66 million years before the first humans.

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**Who acts:** Cartoon cavemen, dinosaurs · **What happens:** grunt, ride, be, die out · **To what, where:** dinosaurs, pure fantasy

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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 (Cartoon cavemen, dinosaurs), 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:6
# text = Cartoon cavemen who grunt and ride dinosaurs are pure fantasy: dinosaurs died out about 66 million years before the first humans.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grunt	grunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fantasy	fantasy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:acl:relcl
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grunt** | present | Cartoon cavemen |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ride** | present | Cartoon cavemen *not said here* | dinosaurs |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Cartoon cavemen | pure fantasy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die out** | past | dinosaurs |  |  |  | before the first humans; year |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:6`.

**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 ×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/).

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