--- title: Raptors held their big curved toe claw off the ground while walking… — Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers… · tree and pragmatics description: Raptors held their big curved toe claw off the ground while walking and probably used it to pin down prey, like hawks today. Who acts: Raptors. A sentence of the lesson «Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 7 Raptors held their big curved toe claw off the ground while walking and probably used it to pin down prey, like hawks today. **Who acts:** Raptors · **What happens:** hold, curve, walk, use, pin down · **To what, where:** big curved toe claw, claw, prey 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 (Raptors), 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:7 # text = Raptors held their big curved toe claw off the ground while walking and probably used it to pin down prey, like hawks today. # 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 1 Raptors raptor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 curved curve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 amod _ _ 6 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 8 off off ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 probably probably ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 pin pin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 19 down down ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 hawks hawk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 24 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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** | past | Raptors | raptors's big curved toe claw | | | today | off the ground; like hawks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme | | 2 | **curve** | participle | | | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 3 | **walk** | gerund | Raptors *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **use** | past | Raptors *not said here* | claw | | | | probably *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **pin down** | to-infinitive | Raptors *not said here* | prey | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=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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