--- title: Sue, one of the largest and most complete T. rex skeletons with abou… — Fossils: how we know about life long ago · tree and pragmatics description: Sue, one of the largest and most complete T. rex skeletons with about 90 percent of the bones, was found in South Dakota in 1990 by Sue Hendrickson and stands in the Field Museum in Chicago; the skeleton is named after its finder, and nobody knows if Sue was female or male. Who acts: Sue, nobody. 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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 (Sue, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:074-fossils-life-long-ago.lesson:15 # text = Sue, one of the largest and most complete T. rex skeletons with about 90 percent of the bones, was found in South Dakota in 1990 by Sue Hendrickson and stands in the Field Museum in Chicago; the skeleton is named after its finder, and nobody knows if Sue was female or male. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 074-fossils-life-long-ago.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 ×6, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sue Sue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:appos 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj:pass 4 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 6 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 9 advmod _ _ 9 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 10 T. T. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 rex rex NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 skeletons skeleton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Dakota Dakota PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 1990 1990 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 obl _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Sue Sue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 30 Hendrickson Hendrickson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det 35 Field field PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 Museum Museum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:appos 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Chicago Chicago PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 parataxis _ _ 44 after after ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 finder finder NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 50 nsubj _ _ 50 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 51 if if SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 52 Sue Sue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 53 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 54 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 ccomp _ _ 55 or or CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 56 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 conj _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 22 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** | past · passive | Sue | Sue | | South Dakota | | in 1990 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | | 2 | **stand** | present | Sue *not said here* | the Field Museum in Chicago | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **name** | present · passive | | the skeleton | | | after skeleton's finder | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **know** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Sue | | | | | female *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | Sue *not said here* | | | | | | 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:074-fossils-life-long-ago.lesson:15`. **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 ×6, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Fossils: how we know about life long ago, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/14/) - next →: [Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they l…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/)