The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes, sentence 11

Poaching and war killed nearly all northern white rhinos; the last male, Sudan, died in 2018, so only two females are left, and scientists are trying to make new calves from frozen cells with southern white rhinos as mothers.

Who acts: Poaching, last male, scientists · What happens: kill, die, leave, try, make, freeze · To what, where: northern white rhinos, two females, new calves, frozen cells

This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes» 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 (Poaching, last male, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poaching	poach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killed	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 war	cc
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poaching	conj
4	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 all	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 rhinos	det
7	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rhinos	amod
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rhinos	amod
9	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 killed	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Poaching	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 male	det
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 male	amod
13	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 died	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Sudan	punct
15	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 male	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 male	punct
17	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 killed	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 2018	case
19	2018	2018	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 died	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 left	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	26 left	advmod
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 two	advmod
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 females	nummod
24	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 left	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 left	aux:pass
26	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 died	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 trying	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 trying	cc
29	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 trying	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 trying	aux
31	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 left	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 make	mark
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 trying	xcomp
34	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 calves	amod
35	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 make	obj
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 cells	case
37	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 cells	amod
38	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 calves	nmod
39	with	with	ADP	_	42 rhinos	case
40	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 rhinos	amod
41	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 rhinos	amod
42	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 cells	nmod
43	as	as	ADP	_	44 mothers	case
44	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 make	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 died	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	past	Poaching and war	all northern white rhinos			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhino=Theme
2	die	past	the last male			in 2018	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2018=Attribute
3	leave	present · passive		two females			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	try	present · progressive	scientists				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	scientists not said here	new calves	frozen cells with southern white rhinos	as mothers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset calf=Product from cell=Material
6	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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, 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:101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos.lesson:11.

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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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