Fossils, sentence 13
Mary Anning, a working-class woman from Lyme Regis, found the first complete ichthyosaur skeletons in the early 1800s.
Who acts: Mary · What happens: find · To what, where: first complete ichthyosaur skeletons, early 1800s
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils» of the geography 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 (Mary), 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 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj |
| 2 | Anning | Anning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mary | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 5 | working | working | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 class | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 working | punct |
| 7 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | compound |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mary | appos |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Regis | case |
| 10 | Lyme | Lyme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Regis | flat |
| 11 | Regis | Regis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mary | punct |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 skeletons | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 skeletons | amod |
| 16 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 skeletons | amod |
| 17 | ichthyosaur | ichthyosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 skeletons | compound |
| 18 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 found | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1800s | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 1800s | det |
| 21 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 1800s | amod |
| 22 | 1800s | 1800 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 13 found | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Mary | the first complete ichthyosaur skeletons | the early 1800s | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=Topic |
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:geography:057-fossils.lesson:13.
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): no change. 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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