--- title: In 1938 a coelacanth was caught off South Africa, though scientists… — Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1938 a coelacanth was caught off South Africa, though scientists thought coelacanths had died out with the dinosaurs, and a second kind was found at an Indonesian fish market in 1997. Who acts: scientists, coelacanths. 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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, coelacanths), 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:4 # text = In 1938 a coelacanth was caught off South Africa, though scientists thought coelacanths had died out with the dinosaurs, and a second kind was found at an Indonesian fish market in 1997. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1938 1938 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 coelacanth coelacanth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 off off ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 11 though though SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 14 coelacanths coelacanth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 25 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 Indonesian Indonesian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 31 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 1997 1997 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | past · passive | | a coelacanth | | 1938 | | off South Africa | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **die out** | past · perfect | coelacanths | | | | | with the dinosaurs | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **find** | past · passive | | a second kind | | a Indonesian fish market | | in 1997 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at market=Asset | 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:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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