Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 6
The Wollemi pine, known only from fossils, was found in 1994 in a canyon near Sydney; fewer than a hundred grow in the wild, and their place is kept secret.
Who acts: fewer hundred · What happens: know, find, grow, keep · To what, where: Wollemi pine, fossils, 1994, wild, place
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 (fewer hundred), 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 | 3 pine | det |
| 2 | Wollemi | Wollemi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pine | compound |
| 3 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pine | acl |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 fossils | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 fossils | case |
| 8 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 known | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pine | punct |
| 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 | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1994 | case |
| 13 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 found | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 canyon | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 canyon | det |
| 16 | canyon | canyon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 Sydney | case |
| 18 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 canyon | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fewer | punct |
| 20 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 hundred | amod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 hundred | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hundred | det |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 grow | nsubj |
| 24 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 wild | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wild | det |
| 27 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grow | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 kept | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 kept | cc |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 place | nmod:poss |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 kept | aux:pass |
| 33 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 grow | conj |
| 34 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 kept | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | 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 | participle | the Wollemi pine not said here | fossils | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | the Wollemi pine | 1994 | in a canyon near Sydney | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | grow | present | a fewer hundred | the wild | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location | ||||
| 4 | keep | present · passive | scientists's place | secret property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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:6.
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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