Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes, sentence 8
The fighting dinosaurs fossil shows a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops buried mid-fight, probably by a collapsing sand dune, about 75 million years ago.
Who acts: dinosaurs fossil, Velociraptor · What happens: show, bury, collapse · To what, where: Velociraptor, mid-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 (dinosaurs fossil, Velociraptor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fossil | det |
| 2 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dinosaurs | compound |
| 3 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fossil | compound |
| 4 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shows | nsubj |
| 5 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Velociraptor | det |
| 7 | Velociraptor | velociraptor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shows | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Protoceratops | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Protoceratops | det |
| 10 | Protoceratops | protoceratops | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Velociraptor | conj |
| 11 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Velociraptor | acl |
| 12 | mid-fight | mid-fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buried | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ago | punct |
| 14 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 25 ago | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 dune | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dune | det |
| 17 | collapsing | collapse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 dune | amod |
| 18 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dune | compound |
| 19 | dune | dune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ago | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ago | punct |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 million | advmod |
| 22 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 million | compound |
| 23 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 shows | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the dinosaurs fossil | a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops | ago property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent velociraptor=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bury | participle | a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops not said here | mid-fight | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | collapse | gerund | 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:8.
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): 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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