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title: Raptors had fairly large brains for dinosaurs, like some birds, but… — Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers… · tree and pragmatics
description: Raptors had fairly large brains for dinosaurs, like some birds, but there is no proof they were cleverer than dogs or planned attacks together. Who acts: Raptors, proof. A sentence of the lesson «Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes» of the biology course of Mova's prima
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# Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 10

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Raptors had fairly large brains for dinosaurs, like some birds, but there is no proof they were cleverer than dogs or planned attacks together.

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**Who acts:** Raptors, proof · **What happens:** have, be, plan · **To what, where:** large brains, proof, attacks

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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 (Raptors, proof), 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:10
# text = Raptors had fairly large brains for dinosaurs, like some birds, but there is no proof they were cleverer than dogs or planned attacks together.
# 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 ×1
1	Raptors	raptor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	cleverer	clever	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	acl	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	planned	plan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Raptors | large brains |  |  |  | for dinosaurs and some birds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | present | no proof |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | raptors *= raptor* | no proof *not said here* |  |  |  | than dogs; clever *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **plan** | past | raptors *= raptor* *not said here* | attacks |  |  |  | together *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Topic |

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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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**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.

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