Fossils: how we know about life long ago, sentence 15

Sue, one of the largest and most complete T. rex skeletons with about 90 percent of the bones, was found in South Dakota in 1990 by Sue Hendrickson and stands in the Field Museum in Chicago; the skeleton is named after its finder, and nobody knows if Sue was female or male.

Who acts: Sue, nobody · What happens: find, stand, name, know, be · To what, where: Sue, South Dakota, Field Museum, skeleton

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils: how we know about life long ago» 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 (Sue, nobody), 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	Sue	Sue	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 found	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sue	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Sue	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	12 skeletons	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 skeletons	det
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 skeletons	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 skeletons	cc
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 complete	advmod
9	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 largest	conj
10	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rex	compound
11	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skeletons	compound
12	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 percent	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 90	advmod
15	90	90	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 percent	nummod
16	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skeletons	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 bones	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bones	det
19	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 percent	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 found	aux:pass
22	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 Dakota	case
24	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Dakota	compound
25	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 found	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 1990	case
27	1990	1990	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 found	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 Sue	case
29	Sue	Sue	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 found	obl
30	Hendrickson	Hendrickson	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Sue	flat
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stands	cc
32	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 found	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 Field	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Museum	det
35	Field	field	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Museum	compound
36	Museum	Museum	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 stands	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 Chicago	case
38	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Museum	nmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 named	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 skeleton	det
41	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 named	nsubj:pass
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 named	aux:pass
43	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 found	parataxis
44	after	after	ADP	_	46 finder	case
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 finder	nmod:poss
46	finder	finder	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 named	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 knows	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 knows	cc
49	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	50 knows	nsubj
50	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 named	conj
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	54 female	mark
52	Sue	Sue	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 female	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 female	cop
54	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 knows	ccomp
55	or	or	CCONJ	_	56 male	cc
56	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 female	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive	Sue	Sue	South Dakota		in 1990	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
2	stand	present	Sue not said here	the Field Museum in Chicago				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	name	present · passive		the skeleton		after skeleton's finder		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	know	present	nobody					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Sue				female property	tree rules
6	be		Sue not said here					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:074-fossils-life-long-ago.lesson:15.

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 ×6, 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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