--- title: A real fossil shows a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops locked in a f… — Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers… · tree and pragmatics description: A real fossil shows a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops locked in a fight 75 million years ago, buried in a moment, probably when a sand dune collapsed on them. Who acts: real fossil, sand dune. 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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 (real fossil, sand dune), 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:3 # text = A real fossil shows a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops locked in a fight 75 million years ago, buried in a moment, probably when a sand dune collapsed on them. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Velociraptor velociraptor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Protoceratops protoceratops PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 75 75 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 compound _ _ 15 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked 17 ago ago ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 probably probably ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 25 when when SCONJ WRB _ 29 mark _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 dune dune NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 collapsed collapse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 . . 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 real fossil | a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent velociraptor=Recipient | | 2 | **lock** | participle | | a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops *not said here* | | a fight | | ago *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **bury** | participle | a real fossil *not said here* | | | | moment | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **collapse** | past | a sand dune | | | | | on knobs *= knob*; probably *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. 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