--- title: Stegosaurus plates stood in two rows and were probably for display,… — Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, St… · tree and pragmatics description: Stegosaurus plates stood in two rows and were probably for display, maybe warmth; they were too thin to be good armour, and its brain was only about the size of a lime. Who acts: Stegosaurus plates, plates, brain. 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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 (Stegosaurus plates, plates, brain), 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:7 # text = Stegosaurus plates stood in two rows and were probably for display, maybe warmth; they were too thin to be good armour, and its brain was only about the size of a lime. # 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 1 Stegosaurus Stegosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 probably probably ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 display display NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 too too ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 22 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 lime lime NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed hedge=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | Stegosaurus plates | | | two rows | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | Stegosaurus plates *not said here* | | | | | for display and warmth; probably *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | plates *= plate* | | | | | thin *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | plates *= plate* *not said here* | good armour | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | armour's brain | the size | | | | of a lime; about *property* | tree rules | 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. 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