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title: Triceratops had three horns and a big bony frill, weighed as much as… — Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, St… · tree and pragmatics
description: Triceratops had three horns and a big bony frill, weighed as much as an elephant or more, and lived at the same time and place as T. rex. Who acts: Triceratops. A sentence of the lesson «Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills» of the biology course
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# Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 5

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Triceratops had three horns and a big bony frill, weighed as much as an elephant or more, and lived at the same time and place as T. rex.

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**Who acts:** Triceratops · **What happens:** have, weigh, live · **To what, where:** three horns, much

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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), 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:5
# text = Triceratops had three horns and a big bony frill, weighed as much as an elephant or more, and lived at the same time and place as T. rex.
# 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
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	big	big	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	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	T.	t.	PROPN	NNP	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
30	rex	rex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	.	.	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 big bony frill |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
| 2 | **weigh** | past | Triceratops *not said here* | much |  |  |  | as a elephant | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value |
| 3 | **live** | past | Triceratops *not said here* |  |  |  | time | as T. | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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. **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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