--- title: Dinosaurs (apart from the ones that became birds) died out about 66… — Why living things die, and the circle of life in… · tree and pragmatics description: Dinosaurs (apart from the ones that became birds) died out about 66 million years ago; there is no sign that people will die out any time soon, and many people work hard to keep the Earth safe. Who acts: ones, Dinosaurs, sign, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ones, Dinosaurs, sign, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:14 # text = Dinosaurs (apart from the ones that became birds) died out about 66 million years ago; there is no sign that people will die out any time soon, and many people work hard to keep the Earth safe. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 3 apart apart ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 xcomp _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 11 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 compound _ _ 15 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl:unmarked 17 ago ago ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 36 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | the ones | birds | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **die out** | past | Dinosaurs | | | | | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **be** | present | no sign | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **die out** | future | people | no sign *not said here* | | | time | soon *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **work** | present | many people | | | | | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | many people *not said here* | the Earth | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | 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:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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