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title: Dinosaurs were reptiles that lived for about 165 million years and d… — Dinosaurs and life long ago · tree and pragmatics
description: Dinosaurs were reptiles that lived for about 165 million years and died out about 66 million years ago, very likely after a huge rock from space hit the Earth and changed the climate. Who acts: Dinosaurs, reptiles, huge rock. A sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs and life long ago» of the world course
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# Dinosaurs and life long ago, sentence 1

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Dinosaurs were reptiles that lived for about 165 million years and died out about 66 million years ago, very likely after a huge rock from space hit the Earth and changed the climate.

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**Who acts:** Dinosaurs, reptiles, huge rock · **What happens:** be, live, die out, hit, change · **To what, where:** reptiles, Earth, climate

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs and life long ago» 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 (Dinosaurs, reptiles, huge rock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:1
# text = Dinosaurs were reptiles that lived for about 165 million years and died out about 66 million years ago, very likely after a huge rock from space hit the Earth and changed the climate.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
8	165	165	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | past | Dinosaurs | reptiles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | reptiles |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **die out** | past | reptiles *not said here* |  |  |  | after a huge rock from space | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **hit** | past | a huge rock from space *not said here* | the Earth |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **change** | past | a huge rock from space *not said here* | the climate |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Patient |

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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:078-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1, 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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