Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 13

The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a striped meat-eating marsupial that looked like a dog; the last known one died in a zoo in 1936, and despite sightings no proof of any living since has been found.

Who acts: thylacine, striped eating marsupial, last known one · What happens: stripe, eat, be, look, know, die · To what, where: striped eating marsupial, proof, living

This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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 (thylacine, striped eating marsupial, last known one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thylacine	det
2	thylacine	thylacine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marsupial	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tiger	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 tiger	cc
5	Tasmanian	tasmanian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tiger	amod
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thylacine	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thylacine	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 marsupial	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 marsupial	det
10	striped	stripe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 marsupial	amod
11	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eating	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 meat	punct
13	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 marsupial	amod
14	marsupial	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 marsupial	acl:relcl
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 dog	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dog	det
19	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 last	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 one	det
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
23	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 died	nsubj
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 marsupial	parataxis
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 zoo	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 zoo	det
28	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 died	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 1936	case
30	1936	1936	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 died	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sightings	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 found	cc
33	despite	despite	ADP	_	34 sightings	case
34	sightings	sighting	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 found	obl
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 proof	det
36	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 found	nsubj:pass
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 living	case
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 living	det
39	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 proof	nmod
40	since	since	SCONJ	_	43 found	mark
41	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 found	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 found	aux:pass
43	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 died	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 marsupial	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stripe	participle				tree rules
2	eat	gerund				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger	a striped eating marsupial		tree rules
4	look	past	a striped eating marsupial		like a dog	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	know	participle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	die	past	the last known one		in 1936; in a zoo	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in zoo=Attribute
7	find	present · perfect · passive		no proof of any living	despite sightings	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
8	proof			any living		nom proof «cognition 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:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.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): R7-rel-agree ×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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