Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 1

Bumps on a Velociraptor arm bone, called quill knobs, show exactly where big feathers were fixed, just as on a bird's wing bone today.

Who acts: Bumps · What happens: call, show, fix · To what, where: quill knobs, big feathers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Bumps), 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	Bumps	bump	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 show	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	6 bone	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bone	det
4	Velociraptor	velociraptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bone	compound
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bone	compound
6	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bumps	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knobs	punct
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 knobs	acl
9	quill	quill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knobs	compound
10	knobs	knob	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bone	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bumps	punct
12	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	14 where	advmod
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 fixed	advmod
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 feathers	amod
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fixed	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fixed	aux:pass
18	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 show	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 as	advmod
21	as	as	ADV	_	12 show	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	27 bone	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bird	det
24	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bone	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 bird	case
26	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bone	compound
27	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 as	obl
28	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bone	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call	participle		quill knobs not said here	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show	present	Bumps on a Velociraptor arm bone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fix	past · passive		big feathers	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=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:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor.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 ×3. 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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