Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 11
A few trackways show raptors walking together, but the evidence for pack hunting is thin, so scientists keep an open mind.
Who acts: few trackways, raptors, evidence, scientists · What happens: show, walk, be, keep · To what, where: raptors, open mind
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 (few trackways, raptors, evidence, scientists), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 trackways | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trackways | amod |
| 3 | trackways | trackway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 show | nsubj |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | raptors | raptor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 show | obj |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 raptors | acl |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 walking | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thin | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 thin | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 evidence | det |
| 11 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thin | nsubj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 hunting | case |
| 13 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hunting | compound |
| 14 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 evidence | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thin | cop |
| 16 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 show | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 keep | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 keep | advmod |
| 19 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 keep | nsubj |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | conj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mind | det |
| 22 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mind | amod |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a few trackways | raptors | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent raptor=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | raptors not said here | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the evidence for pack hunting | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | present | scientists | a open mind | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=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:11.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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