Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms, sentence 14

Skin prints show small scales on parts of T. rex, while some smaller relatives such as Yutyrannus had feathers; babies may have been fluffy, but this is not known for sure.

Who acts: Skin prints, smaller relatives, babies · What happens: show, have, be, not know · To what, where: small scales, parts, feathers, this

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 (Skin prints, smaller relatives, babies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

hedged

yes

teacher

changed hedge=1

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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