Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 1
Some discoveries are animals known only as fossils that turn out to be alive, like the coelacanth fish caught in 1938 or the Wollemi pine found in a hidden canyon near Sydney in 1994.
Who acts: discoveries, fossils · What happens: be, know, turn out, catch, find · To what, where: animals, coelacanth fish, 1938, Wollemi pine, hidden canyon
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» 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 (discoveries, fossils), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 discoveries | det |
| 2 | discoveries | discovery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 animals | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 animals | cop |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 animals | acl |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 fossils | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 fossils | case |
| 8 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 known | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 turn | nsubj |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fossils | acl:relcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 turn | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 alive | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 alive | cop |
| 14 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turn | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fish | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 fish | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 18 | coelacanth | coelacanth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fish | compound |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 alive | obl |
| 20 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 fish | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1938 | case |
| 22 | 1938 | 1938 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 caught | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 pine | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pine | det |
| 25 | Wollemi | Wollemi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 pine | compound |
| 26 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fish | conj |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 pine | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 canyon | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 canyon | det |
| 30 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 canyon | amod |
| 31 | canyon | canyon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 found | obl |
| 32 | near | near | ADP | _ | 33 Sydney | case |
| 33 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 canyon | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 1994 | case |
| 35 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 found | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 animals | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | some discoveries | animals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | animals not said here | as fossils | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as fossil=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | turn out | present | fossils | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | fossils not said here | like the coelacanth fish or the Wollemi pine; alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | catch | participle | the coelacanth fish or the Wollemi pine not said here | 1938 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | find | participle | the Wollemi pine not said here | a hidden canyon near Sydney | in 1994 | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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