--- title: The Lord Howe Island stick insect was thought extinct for eighty yea… — Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes… · tree and pragmatics description: The Lord Howe Island stick insect was thought extinct for eighty years until a few were found in 2001 on a tall sea rock near the island, and zoos have since bred thousands. Who acts: zoos. 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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 (zoos), 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:8 # text = The Lord Howe Island stick insect was thought extinct for eighty years until a few were found in 2001 on a tall sea rock near the island, and zoos have since bred thousands. # 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 6 det _ _ 2 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 Howe Howe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 eighty eighty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 until until SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 2001 2001 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 near near ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 since since ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 bred breed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 34 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **think** *speech: other* | past · passive | | the Island stick insect | | | year | extinct *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past · passive | | a few | | 2001 | | on a tall sea rock near the island | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **breed** | present · perfect | zoos | thousands | | | | since *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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): no change. **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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