Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 7
The olinguito of the Andes cloud forests was named in 2013 after scientists studied museum skins, the first new meat-eating mammal found in the Americas in over thirty years.
Who acts: scientists · What happens: name, study, eat, find · To what, where: olinguito, 2013, museum skins, first new eating mammal, Americas
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), 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 olinguito | det |
| 2 | olinguito | olinguito | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 named | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 forests | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forests | det |
| 5 | Andes | Andes | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 forests | compound |
| 6 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forests | compound |
| 7 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 olinguito | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 named | aux:pass |
| 9 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 2013 | case |
| 11 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 named | obl |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 studied | mark |
| 13 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 studied | nsubj |
| 14 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 2013 | advcl |
| 15 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skins | compound |
| 16 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 studied | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 2013 | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mammal | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 mammal | amod |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mammal | amod |
| 21 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eating | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 meat | punct |
| 23 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 mammal | amod |
| 24 | mammal | mammal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 olinguito | appos |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 mammal | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Americas | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Americas | det |
| 28 | Americas | Americas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 found | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 years | case |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 in | fixed |
| 31 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 years | nummod |
| 32 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 found | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 named | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | the olinguito of the Andes cloud forests | 2013 | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | study | past | scientists | museum skins | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Topic | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | find | participle | the first new eating mammal not said here | the Americas | year | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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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