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title: She found the first complete ichthyosaur skeletons, giant sea reptil… — Fossils · tree and pragmatics
description: She found the first complete ichthyosaur skeletons, giant sea reptiles, and gentlemen scientists wrote papers about her finds, often without her name. Who acts: Mary, gentlemen scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Fossils» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Fossils, sentence 5

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She found the first complete ichthyosaur skeletons, giant sea reptiles, and gentlemen scientists wrote papers about her finds, often without her name.

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**Who acts:** Mary, gentlemen scientists · **What happens:** find, write, name · **To what, where:** first complete ichthyosaur skeletons, papers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fossils» of the geography 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 (Mary, gentlemen scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:057-fossils.lesson:5
# text = She found the first complete ichthyosaur skeletons, giant sea reptiles, and gentlemen scientists wrote papers about her finds, often without her name.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 057-fossils.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): no change
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
5	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	ichthyosaur	ichthyosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	_
15	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	finds	find	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **find** | past | Mary | the first complete ichthyosaur skeletons and giant sea reptiles |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=Topic |
| 2 | **write** | past | gentlemen scientists | papers |  |  |  | about Mary's finds; without Mary's name | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent paper=Recipient about find=Topic |
| 3 | **find** |  | Mary |  |  |  |  |  | nom find «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **name** |  | Mary |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): no change. **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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