Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 8

The Lord Howe Island stick insect was thought extinct for eighty years until a few were found in 2001 on a tall sea rock near the island, and zoos have since bred thousands.

Who acts: zoos · What happens: think, find, breed · To what, where: Island stick insect, few, 2001, thousands

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 (zoos), 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	6 insect	det
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Island	compound
3	Howe	Howe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Island	compound
4	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 insect	compound
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 insect	compound
6	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	aux:pass
8	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thought	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thought	obl
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 found	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 few	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 found	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	aux:pass
17	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 thought	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 2001	case
19	2001	2001	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 found	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	24 rock	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rock	det
22	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rock	amod
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rock	compound
24	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obl
25	near	near	ADP	_	27 island	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 island	det
27	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rock	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bred	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bred	cc
30	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bred	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 bred	aux
32	since	since	ADV	_	33 bred	advmod
33	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 thought	conj
34	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bred	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · passive		the Island stick insect		year	extinct property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	find	past · passive		a few	2001		on a tall sea rock near the island	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	breed	present · perfect	zoos	thousands			since property	tree rules

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:8.

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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