Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up, sentence 14

Children have found important fossils, such as a young T. rex found by boys in North Dakota in 2022; they told scientists, and the find went to a museum.

Who acts: Children, find · What happens: find, tell, go · To what, where: important fossils, young T. rex, North Dakota, scientists, museum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up» 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 (Children, find), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fossils	amod
5	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rex	punct
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	12 rex	mark
8	as	as	ADP	_	7 such	fixed
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rex	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rex	amod
11	T.	t.	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rex	compound
12	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fossils	conj
13	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 rex	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 boys	case
15	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 found	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 Dakota	case
17	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Dakota	compound
18	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 found	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 2022	case
20	2022	2022	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 found	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
24	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 told	iobj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 find	det
28	find	find	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 told	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 museum	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 museum	det
32	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present · perfect	Children	important fossils and a young T. rex				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fossil=Topic
2	find	participle		a young T. rex not said here		North Dakota	by boys; in 2022	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	Children = child		scientists			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scientist=Recipient
4	go	past	the find			a museum		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to museum=Initial_Location

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:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up.lesson:14.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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