Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 12

Mary Anning of Lyme Regis found the first complete ichthyosaur when she was about 12; she became an expert fossil hunter but got little credit in her time, because the scientists of her day did not take seriously a working woman who had never been to university, and today she has a statue.

Who acts: Mary Anning, Anning, scientists, working woman · What happens: find, be, become, get, not take, work · To what, where: first complete ichthyosaur, 12, fossil hunter, little credit, working woman, statue

This is a sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» 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 (Mary Anning, Anning, scientists, working woman), 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	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Anning	compound
2	Anning	Anning	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Lyme	case
4	Lyme	Lyme	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Anning	nmod
5	Regis	Regis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lyme	flat
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ichthyosaur	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 ichthyosaur	amod
9	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ichthyosaur	amod
10	ichthyosaur	ichthyosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 12	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 12	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 12	cop
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 12	advmod
15	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 found	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	parataxis
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hunter	det
20	expert	expert	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fossil	compound
21	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hunter	compound
22	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	xcomp
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 got	cc
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 became	conj
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 credit	amod
26	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 time	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 time	nmod:poss
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 take	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	39 take	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 scientists	det
33	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 take	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 day	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 day	nmod:poss
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 scientists	nmod
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 take	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 take	advmod
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 got	advcl
40	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	39 take	advmod
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 woman	det
42	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 woman	amod
43	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	obj
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 woman	acl:relcl
46	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	49 university	advmod
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 university	cop
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 university	case
49	university	university	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 has	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 has	cc
52	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 has	obl:unmarked
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 has	nsubj
54	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 statue	det
56	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 has	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Mary Anning of Lyme	the first complete ichthyosaur				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ichthyosaur=Topic
2	is a	past	Anning	12			about property	tree rules
3	become	past	Anning	a fossil hunter				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	get	past	Anning not said here	little credit		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer credit=Stimulus
5	not take	past · do-support	the scientists of Anning's day		a working woman		seriously property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination
6	work	gerund						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	have	past	a working woman					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	not is	participle					to university	tree rules
9	have	present	Anning	a statue		today		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Patient

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:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.lesson:12.

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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