Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 3
Often local people already knew the animal; «discovered» means scientists described and named it, and many animals may die out before anyone gets the chance.
Who acts: local people, scientists, many animals, anyone · What happens: know, discover, mean, describe, name, die out · To what, where: animal, chance · 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 (local people, scientists, many animals, anyone), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 5 knew | advmod |
| 2 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 knew | advmod |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 discovered | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 discovered | punct |
| 10 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | conj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 discovered | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 discovered | ccomp |
| 13 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 described | nsubj |
| 14 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 means | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 named | cc |
| 16 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 described | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 named | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 die | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 die | cc |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 animals | amod |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 die | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 die | aux |
| 23 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 means | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 die | compound:prt |
| 25 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 27 gets | mark |
| 26 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 gets | nsubj |
| 27 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 die | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chance | det |
| 29 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gets | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | local people | the animal | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | discover in a quote | past | local people not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | local people not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | describe | past | scientists | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | name | past | scientists not said here | animal | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | die out | may | many animals | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | get | present | anyone | the chance | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus |
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:3.
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, R6-punct-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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