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title: Birds are the living relatives of the dinosaurs. — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics
description: Birds are the living relatives of the dinosaurs. Who acts: Birds. A sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 19

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Birds are the living relatives of the dinosaurs.

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**Who acts:** Birds · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** living relatives

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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 (Birds), 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:19
# text = Birds are the living relatives of the dinosaurs.
# 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): no change
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	living	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Birds | the living relatives |  |  |  | of the dinosaurs | tree rules |

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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:19`.

**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): no change. **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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