--- title: The saola, a rare deer-like animal from remote mountain forests of V… — Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes… · tree and pragmatics description: The saola, a rare deer-like animal from remote mountain forests of Vietnam and Laos, was discovered in 1992 and has never been seen by a scientist in the wild. Who acts: scientist. 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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 (scientist), 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:5 # text = The saola, a rare deer-like animal from remote mountain forests of Vietnam and Laos, was discovered in 1992 and has never been seen by a scientist 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 saola saola NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 6 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 remote remote ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Vietnam Vietnam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 Laos Laos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 discovered discover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 1992 1992 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 20 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 | **discover** | past · passive | | the saola | | 1992 | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **not** **see** | present · perfect · passive | a scientist | | | the wild | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. 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