--- title: Films like to show a T. rex racing a jeep and missing you if you sta… — Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from tee… · tree and pragmatics description: Films like to show a T. rex racing a jeep and missing you if you stand still, but its heavy legs could not sprint, and its big forward-facing eyes and keen nose would have found you easily. Who acts: Films, you, heavy legs, big facing eyes. 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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 (Films, you, heavy legs, big facing eyes), 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:3 # text = Films like to show a T. rex racing a jeep and missing you if you stand still, but its heavy legs could not sprint, and its big forward-facing eyes and keen nose would have found you easily. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 T. T. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 rex rex NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 racing race VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 jeep jeep NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 missing miss VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 conj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 17 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 sprint sprint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 29 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 30 forward forward ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 32 facing face VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obj 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 keen keen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux _ _ 39 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 easily easily ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **like** | present | Films | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **show** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Films *not said here* | a T. rex | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent rex=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **race** | gerund | Films *not said here* | a jeep | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jeep=Agent | | 4 | **miss** | gerund | Films *not said here* | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 5 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **sprint** | could | jeep's heavy legs | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **face** | gerund | | | | | | forward *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **find** | would · perfect | jeep's big facing eyes and keen nose | you | | | | easily *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | 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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