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title: The wishbone is two collarbones joined together; T. rex and Velocira… — The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living di… · tree and pragmatics
description: The wishbone is two collarbones joined together; T. rex and Velociraptor had wishbones too, long before birds flew. Who acts: wishbone, T. rex, birds. A sentence of the lesson «The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs, sentence 11

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The wishbone is two collarbones joined together; T. rex and Velociraptor had wishbones too, long before birds flew.

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**Who acts:** wishbone, T. rex, birds · **What happens:** be, join, have, fly · **To what, where:** two collarbones, wishbones

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs» 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 (wishbone, T. rex, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:076-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds.lesson:11
# text = The wishbone is two collarbones joined together; T. rex and Velociraptor had wishbones too, long before birds flew.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 076-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wishbone	wishbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	collarbones	collarbone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	T.	t.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	rex	rex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Velociraptor	Velociraptor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	wishbones	wishbone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
18	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 a** | present | the wishbone | two collarbones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **join** | participle |  | two collarbones *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | T. rex and Velociraptor | wishbones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wishbone=Patient |
| 4 | **fly** | past | birds |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:076-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds.lesson:11`.

**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): R7-rel-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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