Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 12

Thousands of in-between fossils are known, such as Tiktaalik, Archaeopteryx and early whales; scientists joke that every new fossil fills one gap but makes two smaller ones.

Who acts: scientists, new fossil · What happens: know, joke, fill, make · To what, where: Thousands, one gap, two smaller ones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links» 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, new fossil), 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	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 known	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 fossils	case
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 fossils	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 in	punct
5	between	between	ADP	_	3 in	fixed
6	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 known	aux:pass
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 known	punct
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 Tiktaalik	case
11	as	as	ADP	_	10 such	fixed
12	Tiktaalik	Tiktaalik	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 known	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Archaeopteryx	punct
14	Archaeopteryx	Archaeopteryx	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Tiktaalik	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 whales	cc
16	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 whales	amod
17	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 Archaeopteryx	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 joke	punct
19	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 joke	nsubj
20	joke	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 known	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 fills	mark
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 fossil	det
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fossil	amod
24	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fills	nsubj
25	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 joke	ccomp
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 gap	nummod
27	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fills	obj
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 makes	cc
29	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fills	conj
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 ones	nummod
31	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 ones	amod
32	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 makes	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 known	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive		Thousands of in fossils	such Tiktaalik and Archaeopteryx and early whales	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	joke speech: other	present	scientists			tree rules
3	fill	present	every new fossil	one gap		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gap=Patient
4	make	present	every new fossil not said here	two smaller ones		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product

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:280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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