--- title: You might think every animal on Earth has already been found, but sc… — Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes… · tree and pragmatics description: You might think every animal on Earth has already been found, but scientists describe thousands of new kinds every year, mostly insects and small sea animals, and now and then something big. Who acts: You, scientists. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers.lesson:0 # text = You might think every animal on Earth has already been found, but scientists describe thousands of new kinds every year, mostly insects and small sea animals, and now and then something big. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers.lesson # annotation = 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 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 already already ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 describe describe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 16 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 appos _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 conj _ _ 34 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 conj _ _ 35 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | might | You | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **find** | present · perfect · passive | | every animal on Earth | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **describe** | present | scientists | thousands of new kinds | | | year | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thousand=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers.lesson:0`. **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. **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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