Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 5

The saola, a rare deer-like animal from remote mountain forests of Vietnam and Laos, was discovered in 1992 and has never been seen by a scientist in the wild.

Who acts: scientist · What happens: discover, not see · To what, where: saola, 1992, 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 (scientist), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 saola	det
2	saola	saola	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 discovered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 animal	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 animal	det
5	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animal	amod
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 deer	punct
8	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animal	amod
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saola	appos
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 forests	case
11	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forests	amod
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forests	compound
13	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 animal	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Vietnam	case
15	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 forests	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Laos	cc
17	Laos	Laos	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Vietnam	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saola	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 discovered	aux:pass
20	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 1992	case
22	1992	1992	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 discovered	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 seen	cc
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 seen	advmod
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 seen	aux:pass
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 discovered	conj
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 scientist	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 scientist	det
30	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 wild	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wild	det
33	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 discovered	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	discover	past · passive		the saola		1992			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	not see	present · perfect · passive	a scientist			the wild			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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:5.

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): no change. 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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