--- title: The fighting dinosaurs fossil shows a Velociraptor and a Protocerato… — Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers… · tree and pragmatics description: The fighting dinosaurs fossil shows a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops buried mid-fight, probably by a collapsing sand dune, about 75 million years ago. Who acts: dinosaurs fossil, Velociraptor. 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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 (dinosaurs fossil, 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:8 # text = The fighting dinosaurs fossil shows a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops buried mid-fight, probably by a collapsing sand dune, about 75 million years ago. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 fighting fighting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 compound _ _ 4 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Velociraptor velociraptor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Protoceratops protoceratops PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 12 mid-fight mid-fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 14 probably probably ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 collapsing collapse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 18 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 dune dune NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 75 75 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 compound _ _ 23 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 ago ago ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | the dinosaurs fossil | a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops | | | | ago *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent velociraptor=Recipient | | 2 | **bury** | participle | a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops *not said here* | mid-fight | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **collapse** | gerund | | | | | | | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor.lesson:8`. **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,…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/7/) - next →: [Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws,…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/)