Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 10

Raptors had fairly large brains for dinosaurs, like some birds, but there is no proof they were cleverer than dogs or planned attacks together.

Who acts: Raptors, proof · What happens: have, be, plan · To what, where: large brains, proof, attacks

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, proof), 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	Raptors	raptor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	4 large	advmod
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brains	amod
5	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 dinosaurs	case
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brains	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 birds	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 birds	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 birds	det
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dinosaurs	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 is	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 is	expl
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 proof	det
17	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 is	nsubj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cleverer	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cleverer	cop
20	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 proof	acl
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 dogs	case
22	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cleverer	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 planned	cc
24	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cleverer	conj
25	attacks	attack	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 planned	obj
26	together	together	ADV	_	24 planned	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Raptors	large brains		for dinosaurs and some birds	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
2	be	present	no proof		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	raptors = raptor	no proof not said here		than dogs; clever property	tree rules
4	plan	past	raptors = raptor not said here	attacks		together property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Topic

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:10.

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. 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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