--- title: Some discoveries are animals known only as fossils that turn out to… — Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes… · tree and pragmatics description: Some discoveries are animals known only as fossils that turn out to be alive, like the coelacanth fish caught in 1938 or the Wollemi pine found in a hidden canyon near Sydney in 1994. Who acts: discoveries, fossils. 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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 (discoveries, fossils), 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:1 # text = Some discoveries are animals known only as fossils that turn out to be alive, like the coelacanth fish caught in 1938 or the Wollemi pine found in a hidden canyon near Sydney in 1994. # 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): no change 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 discoveries discovery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 14 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 coelacanth coelacanth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 1938 1938 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Wollemi Wollemi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 27 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 canyon canyon NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 near near ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 1994 1994 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | some discoveries | animals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | participle | | animals *not said here* | | | | as fossils | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as fossil=Attribute | | 3 | **turn out** | present | fossils | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | fossils *not said here* | | | | | like the coelacanth fish or the Wollemi pine; alive *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **catch** | participle | | the coelacanth fish or the Wollemi pine *not said here* | | 1938 | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **find** | participle | | the Wollemi pine *not said here* | | a hidden canyon near Sydney | | in 1994 | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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](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:1`. **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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