Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 3
A real fossil shows a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops locked in a fight 75 million years ago, buried in a moment, probably when a sand dune collapsed on them.
Who acts: real fossil, sand dune · What happens: show, lock, bury, collapse · To what, where: Velociraptor, fight
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 (real fossil, sand dune), 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 fossil | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fossil | amod |
| 3 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Velociraptor | det |
| 6 | Velociraptor | velociraptor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Protoceratops | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Protoceratops | det |
| 9 | Protoceratops | protoceratops | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Velociraptor | conj |
| 10 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Velociraptor | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fight | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fight | det |
| 13 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 locked | obl |
| 14 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 million | compound |
| 15 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 locked | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 buried | punct |
| 19 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Velociraptor | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 moment | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moment | det |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 buried | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dune | punct |
| 24 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 29 collapsed | advmod |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 29 collapsed | mark |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dune | det |
| 27 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dune | compound |
| 28 | dune | dune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 collapsed | nsubj |
| 29 | collapsed | collapse | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 buried | advcl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 collapsed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shows | 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 real fossil | a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent velociraptor=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | lock | participle | a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops not said here | a fight | ago property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | bury | participle | a real fossil not said here | moment | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | collapse | past | a sand dune | on knobs = knob; probably property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:3.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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