--- title: T. rex arms were short, about as long as a man's arm, but strong, wi… — Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from tee… · tree and pragmatics description: T. rex arms were short, about as long as a man's arm, but strong, with two fingers; scientists still argue what they were for. Who acts: rex arms, scientists. 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 s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms/) / 9 # Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms, sentence 9 T. rex arms were short, about as long as a man's arm, but strong, with two fingers; scientists still argue what they were for. **Who acts:** rex arms, scientists · **What happens:** be, argue 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 (rex arms, scientists), 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:9 # text = T. rex arms were short, about as long as a man's arm, but strong, with two fingers; scientists still argue what they were for. # 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): no change 1 T. T. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 rex rex NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 25 obj _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 28 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | rex arms | | | | | with two fingers; long, short *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | rex arms *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | scientists | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms.lesson:9`. **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): no change. **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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