Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 12

Oviraptor was named «egg thief» because it was found on a nest, but later finds showed it was sitting on its own eggs like a hen.

Who acts: finds, evidence · What happens: name, find, show, sit · To what, where: Oviraptor, evidence, nest, own eggs · 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 (finds, evidence), 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	Oviraptor	Oviraptor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 named	aux:pass
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 thief	punct
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thief	compound
6	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 named	xcomp
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 thief	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 found	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux:pass
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 named	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 nest	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 nest	det
14	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 showed	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 showed	cc
17	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 finds	advmod
18	finds	find	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 showed	nsubj
19	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 named	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sitting	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sitting	aux
22	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 showed	ccomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 eggs	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 eggs	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eggs	amod
26	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sitting	obl
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 hen	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hen	det
29	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 named	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		Oviraptor			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	find	past · passive		evidence	a nest		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	show	past	finds				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sit	past · progressive	evidence		evidence's own eggs	like a hen	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location

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:12.

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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