--- title: Nobody ever saw a living T. rex, so everything we know comes from cl… — Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from tee… · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody ever saw a living T. rex, so everything we know comes from clues: bones, teeth, footprints, skin prints and even fossil dung full of crushed bone. Who acts: Nobody, we, everything. 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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 (Nobody, we, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms.lesson:1 # text = Nobody ever saw a living T. rex, so everything we know comes from clues: bones, teeth, footprints, skin prints and even fossil dung full of crushed bone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms.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 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 2 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 T. t. NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 rex rex NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 13 nsubj _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 footprints footprint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 prints print NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 dung dung NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 crushed crush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Nobody | a living T. rex | | | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rex=Stimulus | | 2 | **know** | present | we | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **come** | present | everything | | | clues | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from clue=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **crush** | participle | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:biology:265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms.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. 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