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title: Non-bird dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago; humans appea… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics
description: Non-bird dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago; humans appeared only about 300,000 years ago, so no human ever saw one. Who acts: Non-bird dinosaurs, humans, human. A sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with i
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# BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 18

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Non-bird dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago; humans appeared only about 300,000 years ago, so no human ever saw one.

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**Who acts:** Non-bird dinosaurs, humans, human · **What happens:** die out, appear, see · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world 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 (Non-bird dinosaurs, humans, human), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:18
# text = Non-bird dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago; humans appeared only about 300,000 years ago, so no human ever saw one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Non-bird	non-bird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
11	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	300,000	300000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl:unmarked
17	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	human	human	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die out** | past | Non-bird 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 |
| 3 | **see** | past | no human | one |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |

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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:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:18`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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