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title: Utahraptor was about 6 metres long and as heavy as a polar bear, and… — Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers… · tree and pragmatics
description: Utahraptor was about 6 metres long and as heavy as a polar bear, and lived earlier than Velociraptor; most raptors were small. Who acts: Utahraptor, most raptors. 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 9

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Utahraptor was about 6 metres long and as heavy as a polar bear, and lived earlier than Velociraptor; most raptors were small.

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**Who acts:** Utahraptor, most raptors · **What happens:** be, live

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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 (Utahraptor, most 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:9
# text = Utahraptor was about 6 metres long and as heavy as a polar bear, and lived earlier than Velociraptor; most raptors were small.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Utahraptor	utahraptor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Velociraptor	Velociraptor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	raptors	raptor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Utahraptor |  |  |  |  | 6 metres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Utahraptor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a polar bear | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | Utahraptor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | most raptors |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:9`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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/).

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