--- title: T. rex lived closer in time to us than to Stegosaurus, and no human… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics description: T. rex lived closer in time to us than to Stegosaurus, and no human ever met a dinosaur, apart from the birds, which are dinosaurs' living relatives. Who acts: T. rex, human, birds. 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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 (T. rex, human, 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:8 # text = T. rex lived closer in time to us than to Stegosaurus, and no human ever met a dinosaur, apart from the birds, which are dinosaurs' living relatives. # 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 T. t. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 rex rex NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 closer close ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 9 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Stegosaurus Stegosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 human human NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 17 advmod _ _ 17 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 apart apart ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod:poss _ _ 29 ' ' PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 acl:relcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | T. rex | | us | | time | than Stegosaurus; close *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **meet** | past | no human | a dinosaur | | | ever | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the birds | dinosaurs's living relatives | | | | | tree rules | 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:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:8`. **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/). - ← previous: [BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/7/) - next →: [BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/)