--- title: Oviraptor was named «egg thief» because it was found on a nest, but… — Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers… · tree and pragmatics description: Oviraptor was named «egg thief» because it was found on a nest, but later finds showed it was sitting on its own eggs like a hen. Who acts: finds, evidence. A sentence of the lesson «Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/12/) [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/) / [Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/) / 12 # Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 12 Oviraptor was named «egg thief» because it was found on a nest, but later finds showed it was sitting on its own eggs like a hen. **Who acts:** finds, evidence · **What happens:** name, find, show, sit · **To what, where:** Oviraptor, evidence, nest, own eggs · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (finds, evidence), 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:12 # text = Oviraptor was named «egg thief» because it was found on a nest, but later finds showed it was sitting on its own eggs like a hen. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Oviraptor Oviraptor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 thief thief NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 18 finds find NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | past · passive | | Oviraptor | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past · passive | | evidence | | a nest | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **show** | past | finds | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | evidence | | | evidence's own eggs | | like a hen | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location | 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:12`. **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: [Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws,…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/11/) - next →: [Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws,…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/)