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title: The real Velociraptor was about the size of a turkey and had feather… — Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers… · tree and pragmatics
description: The real Velociraptor was about the size of a turkey and had feathers; the film raptors were based on a bigger relative, Deinonychus. Who acts: real Velociraptor. A sentence of the lesson «Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho
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# Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 5

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The real Velociraptor was about the size of a turkey and had feathers; the film raptors were based on a bigger relative, Deinonychus.

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**Who acts:** real Velociraptor · **What happens:** be, have, base · **To what, where:** size, feathers, film raptors, bigger relative

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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 (real Velociraptor), 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:5
# text = The real Velociraptor was about the size of a turkey and had feathers; the film raptors were based on a bigger relative, Deinonychus.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Velociraptor	velociraptor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	raptors	raptor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Deinonychus	Deinonychus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the real Velociraptor | the size |  |  |  | of a turkey; about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the real Velociraptor *not said here* | feathers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
| 3 | **base** | past · passive |  | the film raptors |  | a bigger relative |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on relative=Source |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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