Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 10

Scrat is invented, but in 2011 scientists described a tiny long-fanged fossil mammal from about 94 million years ago in South America that reminded them of him.

Who acts: scientists, tiny long fanged fossil mammal · What happens: invent, describe, fang, remind · To what, where: Scrat, 2011, South America, scientists

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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 (scientists, tiny long fanged fossil mammal), 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	Scrat	Scrat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 invented	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	aux:pass
3	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 described	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 described	cc
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 scientists	case
7	2011	2011	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 described	obl
8	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 described	nsubj
9	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mammal	det
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mammal	amod
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mammal	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 long	punct
14	fanged	fang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 mammal	amod
15	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mammal	compound
16	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 described	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 94	case
18	about	about	ADV	_	20 million	advmod
19	94	94	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 million	compound
20	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ago	obl:unmarked
22	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 invented	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 America	case
24	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 America	compound
25	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 described	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 reminded	nsubj
27	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 mammal	acl:relcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reminded	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reminded	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 invented	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	invent	present · passive		Scrat			ago property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	describe	past	scientists	2011		South America		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mammal=Theme
3	fang	participle						tree rules
4	remind speech: other	past	a tiny long fanged fossil mammal		scientists = scientist		of America	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of he=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:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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