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title: Stegosaurus lived about 150 million years ago and T. rex about 68 to… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics
description: Stegosaurus lived about 150 million years ago and T. rex about 68 to 66 million years ago, so T. rex lived closer in time to us than to Stegosaurus. Who acts: Stegosaurus, T. rex. A sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world course of Mova's primary school
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# BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 20

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Stegosaurus lived about 150 million years ago and T. rex about 68 to 66 million years ago, so T. rex lived closer in time to us than to Stegosaurus.

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**Who acts:** Stegosaurus, T. rex · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** us

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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 (Stegosaurus, T. rex), 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:20
# text = Stegosaurus lived about 150 million years ago and T. rex about 68 to 66 million years ago, so T. rex lived closer in time to us than to Stegosaurus.
# 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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
4	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nummod
5	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl:unmarked
7	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	T.	t.	PROPN	NNP	_	10	compound	_	_
10	rex	rex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	68	68	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
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=12:obl:unmarked
17	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	T.	t.	PROPN	NNP	_	21	compound	_	_
21	rex	rex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
23	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Stegosaurus |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | T. rex |  | us |  | time | than Stegosaurus; close *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:20`.

**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, 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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