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title: The last big dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, and huma… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The last big dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, and humans appeared only about 300,000 years ago. Who acts: last big dinosaurs, humans. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 16

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The last big dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, and humans appeared only about 300,000 years ago.

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**Who acts:** last big dinosaurs, humans · **What happens:** die out, appear

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths 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 (last big dinosaurs, humans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:16
# text = The last big dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, and humans appeared only about 300,000 years ago.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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 ×5
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked
11	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	300,000	300,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl:unmarked
20	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **die out** | past | the last big dinosaurs |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **appear** | past | humans |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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): R5-strong ×5. **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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