--- title: Pull the wishbone after a Sunday roast and you hold a bone T. rex ha… — The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living di… · tree and pragmatics description: Pull the wishbone after a Sunday roast and you hold a bone T. rex had too; look at a pigeon's scaly feet and sharp claws and you are looking at a dinosaur's foot. Who acts: you, T. rex. 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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 (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:076-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds.lesson:2 # text = Pull the wishbone after a Sunday roast and you hold a bone T. rex had too; look at a pigeon's scaly feet and sharp claws and you are looking at a dinosaur's foot. # 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 Pull pull VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wishbone wishbone NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 roast roast NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 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 _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 T. T. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 rex rex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 19 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 scaly scaly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | imperative | you *not said here* | the wishbone | | | after a Sunday roast | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wishbone=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | present | you | a bone | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | T. rex | a bone *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 4 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | at a pigeon's scaly feet and sharp claws | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme | | 5 | **look** | present · progressive | you | | | | | at a dinosaur's foot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme | 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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