Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 16

Almost all big animals have been found, but many new kinds of small animals are named every year; one ocean project reported over 800 new kinds in 2024, and most living species are still unnamed.

Who acts: one ocean project, most living species · What happens: find, name, report, live, be · To what, where: big animals, many new kinds, 800 new kinds, 2024

This is a sentence of the lesson «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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 (one ocean project, most living species), 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	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 animals	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	nsubj:pass
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 found	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 found	aux:pass
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 named	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 named	cc
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kinds	amod
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kinds	amod
12	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 named	nsubj:pass
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 animals	case
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 animals	amod
15	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kinds	nmod
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 named	aux:pass
17	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 found	conj
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 year	det
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 named	obl:unmarked
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 reported	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 project	nummod
22	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 project	compound
23	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reported	nsubj
24	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	parataxis
25	over	over	ADV	_	26 800	advmod
26	800	800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 kinds	nummod
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 kinds	amod
28	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 reported	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 2024	case
30	2024	2024	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 reported	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 unnamed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 unnamed	cc
33	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 species	amod
34	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 species	amod
35	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 unnamed	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 unnamed	cop
37	still	still	ADV	_	38 unnamed	advmod
38	unnamed	unnamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 reported	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	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	find	present · perfect · passive		all big animals				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	name	present · passive		many new kinds of small animals		year		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	report	past	one ocean project	800 new kinds	2024			vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
4	live	gerund						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	most living species			still	unnamed 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:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:16.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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