Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 2
Others were hiding in plain sight: the olinguito was found by a scientist looking at old skins in a museum drawer, like finding a new toy at the bottom of the toy box you thought you knew.
Who acts: Others, scientist, you · What happens: hide, find, look, think, know · To what, where: plain sight, olinguito, new toy, bottom, toy box · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Others, scientist, you), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hiding | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hiding | aux |
| 3 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 5 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sight | amod |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hiding | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 olinguito | det |
| 9 | olinguito | olinguito | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hiding | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 scientist | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 scientist | det |
| 14 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl:agent |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 scientist | acl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 skins | case |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 skins | amod |
| 18 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looking | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 drawer | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 drawer | det |
| 21 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drawer | compound |
| 22 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looking | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 finding | punct |
| 24 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 25 finding | mark |
| 25 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 looking | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 toy | det |
| 27 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 toy | amod |
| 28 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 finding | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 bottom | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bottom | det |
| 31 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 finding | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 box | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 box | det |
| 34 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 box | compound |
| 35 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bottom | nmod |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 thought | nsubj |
| 37 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 box | acl:relcl |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 knew | nsubj |
| 39 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 thought | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hiding | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · progressive | Others | plain sight | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | a scientist | the olinguito | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | a scientist not said here | in a museum drawer; at old skins | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at skin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | gerund | a scientist not said here | a new toy | the bottom of the toy box | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent toy=Theme at bottom=Asset | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | you | the toy box not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent box=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | know | past | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:2.
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 ×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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