Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 11

Scientists describe thousands of new kinds of animals every year, mostly insects and small sea animals, and many animals may go extinct before being found.

Who acts: Scientists, many animals · What happens: describe, go, find · To what, where: thousands

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 (Scientists, many animals), 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	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 describe	nsubj
2	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 describe	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 kinds	case
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kinds	amod
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 animals	case
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kinds	nmod
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 describe	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 insects	punct
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	13 insects	advmod
13	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 describe	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 animals	cc
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animals	amod
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 animals	compound
17	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 insects	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 animals	amod
21	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 go	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 describe	conj
24	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 go	xcomp
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 found	mark
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 found	aux:pass
27	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 go	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 describe	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	Scientists	thousands of new kinds of animals	year	insects and small sea animals obl	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme
2	go	may	many animals			extinct property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	gerund · passive	many animals not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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:11.

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): 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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