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title: Others had no armour at all: duck-billed dinosaurs ground plants wit… — Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, St… · tree and pragmatics
description: Others had no armour at all: duck-billed dinosaurs ground plants with hundreds of packed teeth, honked through hollow crests and looked after their babies in busy nesting colonies. Who acts: Others, billed dinosaurs. A sentence of the lesson «Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus
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# Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 4

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Others had no armour at all: duck-billed dinosaurs ground plants with hundreds of packed teeth, honked through hollow crests and looked after their babies in busy nesting colonies.

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**Who acts:** Others, billed dinosaurs · **What happens:** have, bill, grind, honk, look · **To what, where:** armour, all, plants, hollow crests

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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 (Others, billed dinosaurs), 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:4
# text = Others had no armour at all: duck-billed dinosaurs ground plants with hundreds of packed teeth, honked through hollow crests and looked after their babies in busy nesting colonies.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:Number=Plur|PronType=Ind
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
8	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	billed	bill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ground	grind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	packed	packed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	honked	honk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	crests	crest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	nesting	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
32	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Others | no armour |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Patient |
| 2 | **bill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grind** | past | billed dinosaurs | plants |  |  |  | with hundreds of packed teeth | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent plant=Patient with hundred=Instrument |
| 4 | **honk** | past | billed dinosaurs *not said here* |  |  | hollow crests |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through crest=Location |
| 5 | **look** | past | billed dinosaurs *not said here* |  |  |  | after dinosaurs's babies in busy nesting colonies |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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