--- title: A grown T. rex was about 12 metres long; its biggest teeth, root inc… — Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from tee… · tree and pragmatics description: A grown T. rex was about 12 metres long; its biggest teeth, root included, were about 30 centimetres long and kept being replaced all its life. Who acts: grown T. rex, root. 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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 (grown T. rex, root), 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:6 # text = A grown T. rex was about 12 metres long; its biggest teeth, root included, were about 30 centimetres long and kept being replaced all its life. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 3 T. t. ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod 4 rex rex NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 parataxis _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 included include VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 24 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 replaced replace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 xcomp _ _ 27 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 29 det:predet _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 24 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 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | a grown T. rex and teenager's biggest teeth | | | | | 12 metres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **include** | participle | root | teenager's biggest teeth *not said here* | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | a grown T. rex and teenager's biggest teeth *not said here* | | | | | 30 centimetres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **keep** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **replace** | gerund · passive | | teenager's life | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: life=Co-Theme | 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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