Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 13

Dodos were big flightless birds that lived only on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, with no predators and no fear of people, and they died out in the 1600s, about a hundred years after sailors arrived.

Who acts: Dodos, big flightless birds, sailors · What happens: be, live, die out, arrive, fear · To what, where: big flightless birds, Mauritius, people

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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 (Dodos, big flightless birds, sailors), 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	Dodos	dodo	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 birds	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 birds	cop
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
4	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 birds	acl:relcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 Mauritius	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 Mauritius	case
10	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 Ocean	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Ocean	det
13	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Ocean	amod
14	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 predators	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 predators	case
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 predators	det
18	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fear	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 fear	det
21	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 predators	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 people	case
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fear	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 died	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 died	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 died	nsubj
27	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 birds	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 died	compound:prt
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 1600s	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 1600s	det
31	1600s	1600	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	27 died	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 died	punct
33	about	about	ADV	_	35 hundred	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 years	det
35	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 years	nummod
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 arrived	obl:unmarked
37	after	after	SCONJ	_	39 arrived	mark
38	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 arrived	nsubj
39	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 died	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 birds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dodos	big flightless birds				tree rules
2	live	past	big flightless birds		Mauritius		in the Indian Ocean; with no predators and no fear of people	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location
3	die out	past	dodos = dodo				in the 1600s	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1600=Attribute
4	arrive	past	sailors			year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fear			people				nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:13.

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 ×3, 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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