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title: Scientists describe thousands of new species every year, mostly inse… — Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists describe thousands of new species every year, mostly insects, plants and small sea animals, and each one needs a scientific name, a type specimen kept in a museum and a scientific paper. Who acts: Scientists, one. A sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how 
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# Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 7

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Scientists describe thousands of new species every year, mostly insects, plants and small sea animals, and each one needs a scientific name, a type specimen kept in a museum and a scientific paper.

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**Who acts:** Scientists, one · **What happens:** describe, need, keep · **To what, where:** thousands, scientific name, type specimen, museum

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scientists, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:7
# text = Scientists describe thousands of new species every year, mostly insects, plants and small sea animals, and each one needs a scientific name, a type specimen kept in a museum and a scientific paper.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.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	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj
30	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | Scientists | thousands of new species and insects and plants and small sea animals |  |  | year |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | each one | a scientific name and a scientific paper |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot name=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | participle |  | a type specimen *not said here* |  | a museum |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in museum=Location |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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