--- title: The idea that Stegosaurus had a second brain in its hip is a myth; t… — Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, St… · tree and pragmatics description: The idea that Stegosaurus had a second brain in its hip is a myth; the space there held nerves and perhaps energy-rich tissue, as in birds' hips today. Who acts: Stegosaurus, idea, space. A sentence of the lesson «Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Trice…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/) / 8 # Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills, sentence 8 The idea that Stegosaurus had a second brain in its hip is a myth; the space there held nerves and perhaps energy-rich tissue, as in birds' hips today. **Who acts:** Stegosaurus, idea, space · **What happens:** have, be, hold · **To what, where:** second brain, hip, myth, nerves 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, idea, space), 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:8 # text = The idea that Stegosaurus had a second brain in its hip is a myth; the space there held nerves and perhaps energy-rich tissue, as in birds' hips today. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 4 Stegosaurus Stegosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hip hip NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 19 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 20 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 tissue tissue NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 ' 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 hips hip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 33 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Stegosaurus | a second brain | | brain's hip | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | the idea | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hold** | past | the space | nerves and energy rich tissue | | | | as birds's hips | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nerve=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs.lesson:8`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Trice…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/7/) - next →: [Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Trice…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/)