Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 14

In 1935 a scientist found huge ape teeth sold as dragon teeth in Hong Kong shops, and caves in southern China later gave many more.

Who acts: scientist, caves · What happens: find, sell, give · To what, where: huge ape teeth, 1935, Hong shops, many more

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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 (scientist, caves), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1935	case
2	1935	1935	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 found	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scientist	det
4	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 teeth	amod
7	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teeth	compound
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	obj
9	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 teeth	acl
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 teeth	case
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 teeth	compound
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sold	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 shops	case
14	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 shops	compound
15	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Hong	flat
16	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sold	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gave	cc
19	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gave	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 China	case
21	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 China	amod
22	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 caves	nmod
23	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 gave	advmod
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 more	amod
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 gave	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	a scientist	huge ape teeth	1935		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Topic
2	sell	participle		huge ape teeth not said here	Hong shops	as dragon teeth	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	caves in southern China	many more		late property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme

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:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.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): R2-punct-next ×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.

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