Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 0

In the films, raptors are as tall as a man, scaly, and clever enough to open doors, but the real Velociraptor was about the size of a turkey and covered in feathers.

Who acts: raptors, real Velociraptor · What happens: be, open, cover · To what, where: films, doors, size

This is a sentence of the lesson «Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes» 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 (raptors, real Velociraptor), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 films	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 films	det
3	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tall	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 films	punct
5	raptors	raptor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tall	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tall	cop
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 tall	advmod
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 man	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tall	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scaly	punct
13	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tall	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 clever	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 clever	cc
16	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tall	conj
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 clever	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 open	mark
19	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 clever	advcl
20	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 open	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 size	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 size	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Velociraptor	det
24	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Velociraptor	amod
25	Velociraptor	velociraptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 size	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 size	cop
27	about	about	ADV	_	29 size	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 size	det
29	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tall	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 turkey	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 turkey	det
32	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 size	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 covered	cc
34	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 size	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 feathers	case
36	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 covered	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tall	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	raptors		the films	as a man; tall property	tree rules
2	be		raptors not said here				tree rules
3	be		raptors not said here			enough property	tree rules
4	open	to-infinitive	raptors not said here	doors			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	is a	past	the real Velociraptor	the size		of a turkey; about property	tree rules
6	cover	past	the real Velociraptor not said here			in feathers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in feather=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, 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:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor.lesson:0.

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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