Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 7
Scientists describe thousands of new species every year, mostly insects, plants and small sea animals, and each one needs a scientific name, a type specimen kept in a museum and a scientific paper.
Who acts: Scientists, one · What happens: describe, need, keep · To what, where: thousands, scientific name, type specimen, museum
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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, one), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 describe | nsubj |
| 2 | describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 describe | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 species | case |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 species | amod |
| 6 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thousands | nmod |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 describe | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 insects | punct |
| 10 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 11 insects | advmod |
| 11 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 species | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 plants | punct |
| 13 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 insects | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 animals | cc |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 animals | amod |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 animals | compound |
| 17 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 species | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 needs | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 needs | cc |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 needs | nsubj |
| 22 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 describe | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 name | det |
| 24 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 name | amod |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 needs | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 specimen | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 specimen | det |
| 28 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 specimen | compound |
| 29 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 name | appos |
| 30 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 specimen | acl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 museum | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 museum | det |
| 33 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 kept | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 paper | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 paper | det |
| 36 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 paper | amod |
| 37 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 name | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 describe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | Scientists | thousands of new species and insects and plants and small sea animals | year | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | |||
| 2 | need | present | each one | a scientific name and a scientific paper | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot name=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | participle | a type specimen not said here | a museum | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in museum=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:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:7.
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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