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title: Triceratops had three horns and a huge bony frill, lived at the same… — Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, St… · tree and pragmatics
description: Triceratops had three horns and a huge bony frill, lived at the same time and place as T. rex, and one Triceratops bone has T. rex bite marks that healed, so it got away. Who acts: Triceratops, one Triceratops bone, T. rex bite marks, bone. A sentence of the lesson «Horns, frills, plates and clubs: 
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# Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 1

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Triceratops had three horns and a huge bony frill, lived at the same time and place as T. rex, and one Triceratops bone has T. rex bite marks that healed, so it got away.

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**Who acts:** Triceratops, one Triceratops bone, T. rex bite marks, bone · **What happens:** have, live, heal, get away · **To what, where:** three horns, T. rex bite marks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills» 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 (Triceratops, one Triceratops bone, T. rex bite marks, bone), 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:1
# text = Triceratops had three horns and a huge bony frill, lived at the same time and place as T. rex, and one Triceratops bone has T. rex bite marks that healed, so it got away.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Triceratops	triceratops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	bony	bony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	frill	frill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	T.	t.	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	rex	rex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nummod
24	Triceratops	Triceratops	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
25	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	T.	t.	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
28	rex	rex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	healed	heal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	away	away	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Triceratops | three horns and a huge bony frill |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | past | Triceratops *not said here* |  |  |  | time | as T. rex | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | one Triceratops bone | T. rex bite marks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |
| 4 | **heal** | past | T. rex bite marks |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **get away** | past | bone |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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