Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 3
Long before scientists understood any of this, a girl called Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, England, dug out the first complete ichthyosaur at about 12, and spent her life finding fossils on the stormy beaches.
Who acts: scientists, girl · What happens: understand, call, dug out, spend, find · To what, where: any, girl, first complete ichthyosaur, 12, life, fossils · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (scientists, girl), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 understood | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 understood | mark |
| 3 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 understood | nsubj |
| 4 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dug | advcl |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 understood | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 any | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dug | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dug | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 girl | acl |
| 12 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | Anning | Anning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mary | flat |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Lyme | case |
| 15 | Lyme | Lyme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Anning | nmod |
| 16 | Regis | Regis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lyme | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 England | punct |
| 18 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lyme | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dug | punct |
| 20 | dug | dug | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 dug | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ichthyosaur | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 ichthyosaur | amod |
| 24 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ichthyosaur | amod |
| 25 | ichthyosaur | ichthyosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dug | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 12 | case |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 12 | advmod |
| 28 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 dug | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 spent | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 spent | cc |
| 31 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dug | conj |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 life | nmod:poss |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spent | obj |
| 34 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 spent | advcl |
| 35 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 finding | obj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 beaches | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 beaches | det |
| 38 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 beaches | amod |
| 39 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 finding | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | scientists | any | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a girl not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dug out | past | a girl | the first complete ichthyosaur | 12 | tree rules | |||
| 4 | spend | past | a girl not said here | girl's life | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 5 | find | gerund | a girl not said here | fossils | the stormy beaches | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fossil=Topic |
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:3.
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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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