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title: Stegosaurus had two rows of tall thin plates for show and four tail… — Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, St… · tree and pragmatics
description: Stegosaurus had two rows of tall thin plates for show and four tail spikes that were a real weapon: one bone of Allosaurus, a big meat-eater, has a hole that a spike fits into exactly. Who acts: Stegosaurus, four tail spikes, one bone, spike. 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 2

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Stegosaurus had two rows of tall thin plates for show and four tail spikes that were a real weapon: one bone of Allosaurus, a big meat-eater, has a hole that a spike fits into exactly.

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**Who acts:** Stegosaurus, four tail spikes, one bone, spike · **What happens:** have, be, fit · **To what, where:** two rows, real weapon, hole

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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 (Stegosaurus, four tail spikes, one bone, spike), 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:2
# text = Stegosaurus had two rows of tall thin plates for show and four tail spikes that were a real weapon: one bone of Allosaurus, a big meat-eater, has a hole that a spike fits into exactly.
# 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 ×3
1	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	spikes	spike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Allosaurus	Allosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obj
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	spike	spike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obl
41	.	.	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 | Stegosaurus | two rows of tall thin plates for show and four tail spikes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | four tail spikes | a real weapon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | one bone of Allosaurus | a hole |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 4 | **fit** | present | a spike | a hole |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: 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:2`.

**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 ×3. **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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