--- title: Long before scientists understood any of this, a girl called Mary An… — Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, m… · tree and pragmatics description: Long before scientists understood any of this, a girl called Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, England, dug out the first complete ichthyosaur at about 12, and spent her life finding fossils on the stormy beaches. Who acts: scientists, girl. 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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, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.lesson:3 # text = Long before scientists understood any of this, a girl called Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, England, dug out the first complete ichthyosaur at about 12, and spent her life finding fossils on the stormy beaches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 2 before before SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 understood understand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 5 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 4 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ _ 13 Anning Anning PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Lyme Lyme PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 Regis Regis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 dug dug VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 24 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 ichthyosaur ichthyosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:acl 35 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 stormy stormy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 40 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **understand** | past | scientists | any | | | | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus | | 2 | **call** | participle | | a girl *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dug out** | past | a girl | the first complete ichthyosaur | | 12 | | | tree rules | | 4 | **spend** | past | a girl *not said here* | girl's life | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset | | 5 | **find** | gerund | a girl *not said here* | fossils | | the stormy beaches | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fossil=Topic | 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:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.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 ×2, 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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