--- title: In 1935 a scientist found huge ape teeth sold as dragon teeth in Hon… — Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Dipr… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1935 a scientist found huge ape teeth sold as dragon teeth in Hong Kong shops, and caves in southern China later gave many more. Who acts: scientist, caves. A sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» of the biology cours --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Mammal giants of the past: Paracerathe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus/) / 14 # Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 14 In 1935 a scientist found huge ape teeth sold as dragon teeth in Hong Kong shops, and caves in southern China later gave many more. **Who acts:** scientist, caves · **What happens:** find, sell, give · **To what, where:** huge ape teeth, 1935, Hong shops, many more This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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 (scientist, caves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.lesson:14 # text = In 1935 a scientist found huge ape teeth sold as dragon teeth in Hong Kong shops, and caves in southern China later gave many more. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1935 1935 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 ape ape NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 Hong Hong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 Kong Kong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 caves cave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 24 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | past | a scientist | huge ape teeth | | 1935 | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Topic | | 2 | **sell** | participle | | huge ape teeth *not said here* | | Hong shops | | as dragon teeth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | past | caves in southern China | many more | | | | late *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | 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:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.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): R2-punct-next ×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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