Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 12

Mountain gorillas were known to local people long before scientists first described them in 1902, and now there are about a thousand.

Who acts: scientists, thousand · What happens: know, describe, be · To what, where: Mountain gorillas, gorillas, 1902

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, thousand), 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	Mountain	mountain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gorillas	compound
2	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 known	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 known	aux:pass
4	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 known	obl
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 known	advmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 described	mark
10	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 described	nsubj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 described	advmod
12	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 known	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 described	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 1902	case
15	1902	1902	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 described	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 are	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 are	cc
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 are	advmod
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 are	expl
20	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 known	conj
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 thousand	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thousand	det
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 are	nsubj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 known	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · passive		Mountain gorillas			to local people; long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	describe	past	scientists	gorillas = gorilla	1902		first property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	be	present	a thousand		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:12.

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 ×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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