Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 4
In 1938 a coelacanth was caught off South Africa, though scientists thought coelacanths had died out with the dinosaurs, and a second kind was found at an Indonesian fish market in 1997.
Who acts: scientists, coelacanths · What happens: catch, think, die out, find · To what, where: coelacanth, 1938, second kind, Indonesian fish market · 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 (scientists, coelacanths), 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 1938 | case |
| 2 | 1938 | 1938 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 caught | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coelacanth | det |
| 4 | coelacanth | coelacanth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | aux:pass |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 Africa | case |
| 8 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Africa | compound |
| 9 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 thought | mark |
| 12 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | advcl |
| 14 | coelacanths | coelacanth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 died | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 died | aux |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 died | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 dinosaurs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dinosaurs | det |
| 20 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 died | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 found | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 found | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 kind | det |
| 24 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 kind | amod |
| 25 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 found | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 found | aux:pass |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 caught | conj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 market | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 market | det |
| 30 | Indonesian | Indonesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 market | amod |
| 31 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 market | compound |
| 32 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 found | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 1997 | case |
| 34 | 1997 | 1997 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 found | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | a coelacanth | 1938 | off South Africa | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | scientists | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die out | past · perfect | coelacanths | with the dinosaurs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | find | past · passive | a second kind | a Indonesian fish market | in 1997 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at market=Asset |
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:4.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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