--- title: Quill knobs on a Velociraptor arm bone show where large feathers wer… — Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers… · tree and pragmatics description: Quill knobs on a Velociraptor arm bone show where large feathers were attached; small feathers leave no knobs, so a bone without knobs does not prove an animal had no feathers. Who acts: Quill knobs, small feathers, bone, animal. 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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 (Quill knobs, small feathers, bone, animal), 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:6 # text = Quill knobs on a Velociraptor arm bone show where large feathers were attached; small feathers leave no knobs, so a bone without knobs does not prove an animal had no feathers. # 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 Quill quill NOUN NN _ 2 compound _ _ 2 knobs knob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 Velociraptor Velociraptor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 advmod _ _ 10 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 attached attach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 knobs knob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 without without ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 knobs knob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 33 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Quill knobs a arm bone | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **attach** | past · passive | | large feathers | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **leave** | present | small feathers | no knobs | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knob=Theme | | 4 | **not** **prove** | present · do-support | a bone without knobs | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | a animal | no feathers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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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