--- title: Its teeth were as long as a banana and thick like a railway spike, m… — Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from tee… · tree and pragmatics description: Its teeth were as long as a banana and thick like a railway spike, made to crush bone, and its bite was one of the strongest of any land animal that ever lived. Who acts: teeth, railway spike, bite, land animal. 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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 (teeth, railway spike, bite, land animal), 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:2 # text = Its teeth were as long as a banana and thick like a railway spike, made to crush bone, and its bite was one of the strongest of any land animal that ever lived. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 as as ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 banana banana NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 railway railway NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 spike spike NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 crush crush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 32 det _ _ 31 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nmod 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 35 advmod _ _ 35 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | dung's teeth | | | | | as a banana; long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | dung's teeth *not said here* | | | | | like a railway spike | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | past | a railway spike *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **crush** | to-infinitive | a railway spike *not said here* | bone | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | past | dung's bite | one | | | | of the strongest | tree rules | | 6 | **live** | past | any land animal | | | | ever | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **bite** | | dung | | | | | | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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