--- title: Almost all big animals have been found, but many new kinds of small… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost… · tree and pragmatics description: Almost all big animals have been found, but many new kinds of small animals are named every year; one ocean project reported over 800 new kinds in 2024, and most living species are still unnamed. Who acts: one ocean project, most living species. 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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 (one ocean project, most living species), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:16 # text = Almost all big animals have been found, but many new kinds of small animals are named every year; one ocean project reported over 800 new kinds in 2024, and most living species are still unnamed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Almost almost ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nummod 22 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:parataxis 25 over over ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 26 800 800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 34 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 35 species species NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 still still ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 unnamed unnamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **find** | present · perfect · passive | | all big animals | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **name** | present · passive | | many new kinds of small animals | | | year | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **report** | past | one ocean project | 800 new kinds | | 2024 | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | | 4 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | most living species | | | | still | unnamed *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:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:16`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-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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