--- title: A few trackways show raptors walking together, but the evidence for… — Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers… · tree and pragmatics description: A few trackways show raptors walking together, but the evidence for pack hunting is thin, so scientists keep an open mind. Who acts: few trackways, raptors, evidence, scientists. 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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 (few trackways, raptors, evidence, scientists), 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:11 # text = A few trackways show raptors walking together, but the evidence for pack hunting is thin, so scientists keep an open mind. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 trackways trackway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 raptors raptor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | a few trackways | raptors | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent raptor=Recipient | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | raptors *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the evidence for pack hunting | | | | | thin *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** | present | scientists | a open mind | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=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:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor.lesson:11`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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: [Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws,…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/10/) - next →: [Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws,…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/)