Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 1

The dodo is the famous example: cartoons show it as a silly bird, but it was a big flightless pigeon on the island of Mauritius that had never met a predator, so it had no reason to fear or fly.

Who acts: dodo, cartoons, island · What happens: be, show, not meet, have, fear, fly · To what, where: famous example, dodo, big flightless pigeon, island, predator, reason

This is a sentence of the lesson «Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more» 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, cartoons, island), 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	6 example	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 example	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 example	det
5	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 example	amod
6	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 show	punct
8	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 show	nsubj
9	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 example	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 show	obj
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 bird	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bird	det
13	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	amod
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pigeon	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 pigeon	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pigeon	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pigeon	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pigeon	det
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pigeon	amod
21	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pigeon	amod
22	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 island	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 island	det
25	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pigeon	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Mauritius	case
27	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 island	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 met	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 met	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 met	advmod
31	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 island	acl:relcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 predator	det
33	predator	predator	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 met	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 had	advmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 met	conj
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 reason	det
39	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 fear	mark
41	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 reason	acl
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 fly	cc
43	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 fear	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 example	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the dodo	the famous example			tree rules
2	show	present	cartoons	dodo		as a silly bird	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	is a	past	dodo	a big flightless pigeon	the island of Mauritius		tree rules
4	not meet	past · perfect	the island of Mauritius	a predator			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent predator=Co-Agent
5	have	past	dodo	no reason			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
6	fear	to-infinitive	dodo not said here	no reason not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	fly	infinitive	dodo not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more.lesson:1.

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. 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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