--- title: In 2017 the Skywalker hoolock gibbon of China and Myanmar was named… — Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes… · tree and pragmatics description: In 2017 the Skywalker hoolock gibbon of China and Myanmar was named as a new species after scientists compared its fur, teeth and songs, and fewer than about two hundred are thought to live in the wild. Who acts: 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 (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:14 # text = In 2017 the Skywalker hoolock gibbon of China and Myanmar was named as a new species after scientists compared its fur, teeth and songs, and fewer than about two hundred are thought to live in the wild. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2017 2017 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 Skywalker Skywalker PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 hoolock hoolock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 gibbon gibbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Myanmar Myanmar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 species species NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 17 after after SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 compared compare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:appos 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 than than SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 compound _ _ 32 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | past · passive | | the Skywalker hoolock gibbon of China and Myanmar | | 2017 | | as a new species | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as species=Attribute | | 2 | **compare** | past | scientists | gibbon's fur and teeth and songs | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive | | fewer | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | | | | the wild | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location | 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:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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