--- title: Often local people already knew the animal; «discovered» means scien… — Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes… · tree and pragmatics description: Often local people already knew the animal; «discovered» means scientists described and named it, and many animals may die out before anyone gets the chance. Who acts: local people, scientists, many animals, anyone. 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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 (local people, scientists, many animals, anyone), 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:3 # text = Often local people already knew the animal; «discovered» means scientists described and named it, and many animals may die out before anyone gets the chance. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 2 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 already already ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 13 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 described describe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 named name VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 25 before before SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 27 nsubj _ _ 27 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | local people | the animal | | | | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | | 2 | **discover** *in a quote* | past | local people *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | local people *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **describe** | past | scientists | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **name** | past | scientists *not said here* | animal | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **die out** | may | many animals | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **get** | present | anyone | the chance | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus | 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:3`. **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, R6-punct-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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