--- title: Children have found important fossils, such as a young T. rex found… — Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and h… · tree and pragmatics description: Children have found important fossils, such as a young T. rex found by boys in North Dakota in 2022; they told scientists, and the find went to a museum. Who acts: Children, find. 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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 (Children, find), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up.lesson:14 # text = Children have found important fossils, such as a young T. rex found by boys in North Dakota in 2022; they told scientists, and the find went to a museum. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 12 mark _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 T. t. NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 rex rex NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 13 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Dakota Dakota PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 24 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 iobj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 find find NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 museum museum NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present · perfect | Children | important fossils and a young T. rex | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fossil=Topic | | 2 | **find** | participle | | a young T. rex *not said here* | | North Dakota | | by boys; in 2022 | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Children *= child* | | scientists | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scientist=Recipient | | 4 | **go** | past | the find | | | a museum | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to museum=Initial\_Location | 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:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up.lesson:14`. **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 ×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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