--- title: Mountain gorillas were known to local people long before scientists… — Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes… · tree and pragmatics description: Mountain gorillas were known to local people long before scientists first described them in 1902, and now there are about a thousand. Who acts: scientists, thousand. A sentence of the lesson «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» of the biology course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Strange discoveries: living fossils, h…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/) / 12 # Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 12 Mountain gorillas were known to local people long before scientists first described them in 1902, and now there are about a thousand. **Who acts:** scientists, thousand · **What happens:** know, describe, be · **To what, where:** Mountain gorillas, gorillas, 1902 This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» 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 (scientists, thousand), 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:12 # text = Mountain gorillas were known to local people long before scientists first described them in 1902, and now there are about a thousand. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mountain mountain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod 2 gorillas gorilla NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 9 before before SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ _ 12 described describe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 1902 1902 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl 24 . . 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 | **know** | past · passive | | Mountain gorillas | | | | to local people; long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **describe** | past | scientists | gorillas *= gorilla* | | 1902 | | first *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **be** | present | a thousand | | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:12`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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