--- title: Its famous curved toe claw was held up off the ground and used like… — Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers… · tree and pragmatics description: Its famous curved toe claw was held up off the ground and used like a hook to pin prey down, the way a hawk grips a rabbit, rather than as a knife. Who acts: hawk. 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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 (hawk), 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:2 # text = Its famous curved toe claw was held up off the ground and used like a hook to pin prey down, the way a hawk grips a rabbit, rather than as a knife. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 curved curve ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 off off ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 pin pin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 19 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 down down ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 hawk hawk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 grips grip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 34 cc _ _ 31 than than ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold up** | past · passive | | bone's famous curved toe claw | | | | off the ground; the way *obl* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **use** | past | | | | | | like a hook | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pin down** | to-infinitive | | prey | | | | down *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient | | 4 | **grip** | present | a hawk | a rabbit | | | | a knife *obl* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Experiencer | 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:2`. **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): R8-pos-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,…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/1/) - next →: [Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws,…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/)