--- title: Triceratops was a plant-eater about 9 metres long with three horns a… — Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived · tree and pragmatics description: Triceratops was a plant-eater about 9 metres long with three horns and a bony frill, living at the same time and place as T. rex; some fossils have healed T. rex bite marks. Who acts: Triceratops, three horns, fossils. 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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 (Triceratops, three horns, fossils), 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:7 # text = Triceratops was a plant-eater about 9 metres long with three horns and a bony frill, living at the same time and place as T. rex; some fossils have healed T. rex bite marks. # 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 ×3 1 Triceratops triceratops NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 eater eater NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 bony bony ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 frill frill NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 T. t. NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 rex rex NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 healed heal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 34 T. t. NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 35 rex rex NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | past | Triceratops | a plant eater | | | | with three horns and a bony frill | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | gerund | three horns and a bony frill *not said here* | | | | time | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **heal** | present · perfect | some fossils | T. bite marks | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mark=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. 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