--- title: The four tail spikes of Stegosaurus are called a thagomizer, a name… — Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, St… · tree and pragmatics description: The four tail spikes of Stegosaurus are called a thagomizer, a name scientists borrowed from a funny cartoon; an Allosaurus bone has a hole that fits a spike. Who acts: scientists, Allosaurus bone, hole, Stegosaurus. 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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 (scientists, Allosaurus bone, hole, Stegosaurus), 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:9 # text = The four tail spikes of Stegosaurus are called a thagomizer, a name scientists borrowed from a funny cartoon; an Allosaurus bone has a hole that fits a spike. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 spikes spike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Stegosaurus Stegosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 thagomizer thagomizer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 14 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 borrowed borrow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Allosaurus Allosaurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 spike spike NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | the four tail spikes of Stegosaurus | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **borrow** | past | scientists | a name *not said here* | | a funny cartoon | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent name=Theme from cartoon=Source | | 3 | **have** | present | a Allosaurus bone | a hole | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | | 4 | **fit** | present | a hole | a spike | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spike=Patient | | 5 | **spike** | | Stegosaurus | | | | | | nom spike «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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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