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title: Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two jo… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two joined collarbones that T. rex and Velociraptor had. Who acts: you, T. rex. A sentence of the lesson «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 4

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Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two joined collarbones that T. rex and Velociraptor had.

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**Who acts:** you, T. rex · **What happens:** snap, hold, join, have · **To what, where:** wishbone, same two joined collarbones

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» 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 (you, T. rex), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken.lesson:4
# text = Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two joined collarbones that T. rex and Velociraptor had.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Snap	snap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wishbone	wishbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	collarbones	collarbone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
17	T.	T.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	rex	rex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Velociraptor	Velociraptor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **snap** | imperative | you *not said here* | the wishbone of the Sunday chicken |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wishbone=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | present | you | the same two joined collarbones |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collarbone=Theme |
| 3 | **join** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past | T. rex and Velociraptor | the same two joined collarbones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |

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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:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken.lesson:4`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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/).

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