Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms, sentence 1

Nobody ever saw a living T. rex, so everything we know comes from clues: bones, teeth, footprints, skin prints and even fossil dung full of crushed bone.

Who acts: Nobody, we, everything · What happens: see, know, come, crush · To what, where: living T. rex, clues

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms» 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 (Nobody, we, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 saw	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rex	det
5	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rex	amod
6	T.	t.	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rex	compound
7	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 comes	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 comes	advmod
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 comes	nsubj
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 everything	acl:relcl
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 clues	case
15	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 comes	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 bones	punct
17	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clues	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 teeth	punct
19	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bones	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 footprints	punct
21	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bones	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 prints	punct
23	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 prints	compound
24	prints	print	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bones	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dung	cc
26	even	even	ADV	_	28 dung	advmod
27	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dung	compound
28	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 prints	nmod
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dung	amod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 bone	case
31	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 bone	amod
32	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 full	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	past	Nobody	a living T. rex		ever	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rex=Stimulus
2	know	present	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	present	everything		clues		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from clue=Initial_Location
4	crush	participle					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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, 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:265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms.lesson:1.

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. 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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