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title: Dinosaurs had legs straight under the body, which shows as a hole in… — Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dinosaurs had legs straight under the body, which shows as a hole in the hip socket; flying and swimming reptiles do not count as dinosaurs. Who acts: Dinosaurs, body, reptiles. A sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» of the biology course 
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# Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 14

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Dinosaurs had legs straight under the body, which shows as a hole in the hip socket; flying and swimming reptiles do not count as dinosaurs.

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**Who acts:** Dinosaurs, body, reptiles · **What happens:** have, show, fly, swim, not count · **To what, where:** legs, body

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» 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 (Dinosaurs, body, reptiles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.lesson:14
# text = Dinosaurs had legs straight under the body, which shows as a hole in the hip socket; flying and swimming reptiles do not count as dinosaurs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.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): no change
1	Dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	hip	hip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	socket	socket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
22	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **have** | past | Dinosaurs | legs |  | the body |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | present | the body |  |  |  |  | as a hole in the hip socket | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **count** | present · do-support | reptiles |  |  |  |  | as dinosaurs | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as dinosaur=Attribute |

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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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**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): no change. **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.

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