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title: Growth lines in T. rex bones show it lived to about 28 to 30 years,… — Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from tee… · tree and pragmatics
description: Growth lines in T. rex bones show it lived to about 28 to 30 years, and as a teenager it gained up to two kilograms a day. Who acts: Growth lines, coprolite. A sentence of the lesson «Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc
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# Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms, sentence 16

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Growth lines in T. rex bones show it lived to about 28 to 30 years, and as a teenager it gained up to two kilograms a day.

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**Who acts:** Growth lines, coprolite · **What happens:** show, live, gain up · **To what, where:** two kilograms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms» of the biology 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 (Growth lines, coprolite), 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:16
# text = Growth lines in T. rex bones show it lived to about 28 to 30 years, and as a teenager it gained up to two kilograms a day.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	T.	T.	PROPN	NNP	_	6	compound	_	_
5	rex	rex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case
14	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	teenager	teenager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **show** | present | Growth lines in T. rex bones |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **live** | past | coprolite |  |  |  | year | to 28 | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **gain up** | past | coprolite | two kilograms |  |  | day | as a teenager | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=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:biology:265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms.lesson:16`.

**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 ×2, 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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