--- title: Plant-eating dinosaurs could not run from every hunter, so many grew… — Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, St… · tree and pragmatics description: Plant-eating dinosaurs could not run from every hunter, so many grew horns, frills, plates, spikes and clubs, and each one tells its own story. Who acts: eating dinosaurs, many, one. 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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 (eating dinosaurs, many, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs.lesson:0 # text = Plant-eating dinosaurs could not run from every hunter, so many grew horns, frills, plates, spikes and clubs, and each one tells its own story. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 3 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 amod _ _ 4 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nsubj _ _ 14 grew grew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 15 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 frills frill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 spikes spike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:appos 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 clubs club NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **run** | could | eating dinosaurs | | | every hunter | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hunter=Trajectory | | 3 | **grew** | past | many | horns and frills and plates and spikes and clubs | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | each one | hunter's own story | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | 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:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Br…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/16/) - next →: [Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Trice…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/)