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title: Compsognathus was about 1 metre long including its tail, and the fea… — Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived · tree and pragmatics
description: Compsognathus was about 1 metre long including its tail, and the feathered Microraptor was about the size of a crow, with feathers on its arms and legs. Who acts: Compsognathus, feathered Microraptor. A sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived» of the biology course of Mova
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# Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived, sentence 15

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Compsognathus was about 1 metre long including its tail, and the feathered Microraptor was about the size of a crow, with feathers on its arms and legs.

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**Who acts:** Compsognathus, feathered Microraptor · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 1 metre, size

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived» 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 (Compsognathus, feathered Microraptor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.lesson:15
# text = Compsognathus was about 1 metre long including its tail, and the feathered Microraptor was about the size of a crow, with feathers on its arms and legs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Compsognathus	compsognathus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	including	include	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	feathered	feathered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Microraptor	Microraptor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## 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 a** | past | Compsognathus | 1 metre and the size |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the feathered Microraptor | the size |  |  |  | of a crow with feathers on Microraptor's arms and legs; about *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:075-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives.lesson:15`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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