Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 14
In 2017 the Skywalker hoolock gibbon of China and Myanmar was named as a new species after scientists compared its fur, teeth and songs, and fewer than about two hundred are thought to live in the wild.
Who acts: scientists · What happens: name, compare, think, live · To what, where: Skywalker hoolock gibbon, 2017, fur, fewer, wild
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2017 | case |
| 2 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 named | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gibbon | det |
| 4 | Skywalker | Skywalker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gibbon | compound |
| 5 | hoolock | hoolock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gibbon | compound |
| 6 | gibbon | gibbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 named | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 China | case |
| 8 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gibbon | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Myanmar | cc |
| 10 | Myanmar | Myanmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 China | conj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 named | aux:pass |
| 12 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 species | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 species | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 species | amod |
| 16 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 named | obl |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 compared | mark |
| 18 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 compared | nsubj |
| 19 | compared | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 named | advcl |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fur | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 compared | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 teeth | punct |
| 23 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fur | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 songs | cc |
| 25 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 teeth | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 thought | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 thought | cc |
| 28 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 34 thought | mark |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 32 hundred | advmod |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 hundred | compound |
| 32 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 thought | nummod |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 thought | aux:pass |
| 34 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 named | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 live | mark |
| 36 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 thought | xcomp |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 wild | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wild | det |
| 39 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 live | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 named | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | the Skywalker hoolock gibbon of China and Myanmar | 2017 | as a new species | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as species=Attribute | |||
| 2 | compare | past | scientists | gibbon's fur and teeth and songs | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present · passive | fewer | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | the wild | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location |
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:14.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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