Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 6
The dodo was a big flightless pigeon from Mauritius; it died out in the late 1600s after sailors brought rats, pigs and monkeys that ate its eggs, and people hunted it too.
Who acts: dodo, sailors, rats, people · What happens: be, die out, bring, eat, hunt · To what, where: big flightless pigeon, Mauritius, rats, eggs, dodo
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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 (dodo, sailors, rats, people), 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 dodo | det |
| 2 | dodo | dodo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pigeon | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pigeon | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pigeon | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pigeon | amod |
| 6 | flightless | flightless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pigeon | amod |
| 7 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Mauritius | case |
| 9 | Mauritius | Mauritius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pigeon | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 died | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 died | nsubj |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pigeon | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 died | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1600s | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 1600s | det |
| 16 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 1600s | amod |
| 17 | 1600s | 1600 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 12 died | obl |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 brought | mark |
| 19 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 died | advcl |
| 21 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brought | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pigs | punct |
| 23 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rats | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 monkeys | cc |
| 25 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rats | conj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 ate | nsubj |
| 27 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 rats | acl:relcl |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ate | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hunted | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hunted | cc |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hunted | nsubj |
| 33 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 died | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 hunted | obj |
| 35 | too | too | ADV | _ | 33 hunted | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pigeon | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the dodo | a big flightless pigeon | Mauritius | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die out | past | dodo | in the late 1600s | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1600=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | sailors | rats and pigs and monkeys | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | rats and pigs and monkeys | dodo's eggs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hunt | past | people | dodo | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-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.
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