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title: Bumps on a Velociraptor arm bone, called quill knobs, show exactly w… — Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bumps on a Velociraptor arm bone, called quill knobs, show exactly where big feathers were fixed, just as on a bird's wing bone today. Who acts: Bumps. A sentence of the lesson «Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 1

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Bumps on a Velociraptor arm bone, called quill knobs, show exactly where big feathers were fixed, just as on a bird's wing bone today.

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**Who acts:** Bumps · **What happens:** call, show, fix · **To what, where:** quill knobs, big feathers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes» 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 (Bumps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor.lesson:1
# text = Bumps on a Velociraptor arm bone, called quill knobs, show exactly where big feathers were fixed, just as on a bird's wing bone today.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor.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 ×3
1	Bumps	bump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Velociraptor	velociraptor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound
5	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
9	quill	quill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	knobs	knob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **call** | participle |  | quill knobs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | present | Bumps on a Velociraptor arm bone |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fix** | past · passive |  | big feathers |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |

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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:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor.lesson:1`.

**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 ×3. **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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