Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 11

The quagga was a zebra with stripes only on its front half; it was hunted out in South Africa, and the last died in a zoo in 1883.

Who acts: quagga, last · What happens: be, hunt out, die · To what, where: zebra, quagga, South Africa

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 (quagga, last), 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 quagga	det
2	quagga	quagga	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 zebra	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 zebra	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 zebra	det
5	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 stripes	case
7	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 zebra	nmod
8	only	only	ADV	_	12 half	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 half	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 half	nmod:poss
11	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 half	amod
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 stripes	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 hunted	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hunted	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hunted	aux:pass
16	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 zebra	parataxis
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 hunted	compound:prt
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 Africa	case
19	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Africa	compound
20	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hunted	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 died	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 died	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 last	det
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 died	nsubj
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hunted	conj
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 1883	case
30	1883	1883	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 died	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 zebra	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the quagga	a zebra		with stripes on quagga's front half	tree rules
2	hunt out	past · passive		quagga	South Africa		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in africa=Location
3	die	past	the last			in 1883; in a zoo	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in zoo=Attribute

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:11.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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