Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 10

The great auk was a bird of the North Atlantic with small wings it could not fly with and the first bird to be called a penguin; the last known pair was killed in Iceland in 1844, and sailors later gave the name penguin to the birds in the south.

Who acts: great auk, auk, sailors · What happens: be, not fly, call, know, kill, give · To what, where: bird, small wings, penguin, last known pair, Iceland, name penguin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (great auk, auk, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 auk	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 auk	amod
3	auk	auk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Atlantic	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Atlantic	det
9	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Atlantic	compound
10	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 wings	case
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wings	amod
13	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bird	nmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fly	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fly	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 fly	advmod
17	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wings	acl:relcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 bird	case
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bird	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bird	det
21	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 bird	amod
22	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fly	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	25 called	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 called	aux:pass
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 bird	acl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 penguin	det
27	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	xcomp
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 killed	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pair	det
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pair	amod
31	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 pair	amod
32	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 killed	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 killed	aux:pass
34	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bird	parataxis
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 Iceland	case
36	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 killed	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 1844	case
38	1844	1844	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 killed	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 gave	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 gave	cc
41	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 gave	nsubj
42	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 gave	advmod
43	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 killed	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 penguin	det
45	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 penguin	compound
46	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 gave	obj
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 birds	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 birds	det
49	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 gave	obl
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 south	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 south	det
52	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 birds	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the great auk	a bird			of the North Atlantic; with small wings	tree rules
2	not fly	could	auk	small wings not said here			with the first bird	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
3	call	to-infinitive · passive	auk not said here	a penguin				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
4	know	participle						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	kill	past · passive		the last known pair		Iceland	in 1844	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	give	past	sailors	the name penguin	the birds in the south		late property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent penguin=Theme to bird=Recipient

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:10.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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