Fossils, sentence 5

She found the first complete ichthyosaur skeletons, giant sea reptiles, and gentlemen scientists wrote papers about her finds, often without her name.

Who acts: Mary, gentlemen scientists · What happens: find, write, name · To what, where: first complete ichthyosaur skeletons, papers

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, gentlemen scientists), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skeletons	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 skeletons	amod
5	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skeletons	amod
6	ichthyosaur	ichthyosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skeletons	compound
7	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reptiles	punct
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 reptiles	amod
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reptiles	compound
11	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 skeletons	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wrote	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wrote	cc
14	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 scientists	compound
15	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wrote	nsubj
16	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
17	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wrote	obj
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 finds	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 finds	nmod:poss
20	finds	find	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 papers	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 name	punct
22	often	often	ADV	_	25 name	advmod
23	without	without	ADP	_	25 name	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 name	nmod:poss
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wrote	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	Mary	the first complete ichthyosaur skeletons and giant sea reptiles		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=Topic
2	write	past	gentlemen scientists	papers	about Mary's finds; without Mary's name	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent paper=Recipient about find=Topic
3	find		Mary			nom find «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
4	name		Mary			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:5.

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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