Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 12

DNA showed the quagga was a kind of plains zebra, and a project has bred zebras that look like quaggas again.

Who acts: DNA, quagga, project, zebras · What happens: show, be, breed, look · To what, where: kind plains zebra, zebras · 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 (DNA, quagga, project, zebras), 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	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 quagga	det
4	quagga	quagga	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 zebra	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 zebra	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kind	det
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 zebra	compound
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 plains	case
9	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 zebra	compound
10	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bred	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bred	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 project	det
14	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bred	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bred	aux
16	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 showed	conj
17	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bred	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 look	nsubj
19	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 zebras	acl:relcl
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 quaggas	case
21	quaggas	quagga	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 look	obl
22	again	again	ADV	_	19 look	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 showed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	DNA				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the quagga	kind plains zebra			tree rules
3	breed	present · perfect	a project	zebras			tree rules
4	look	present	zebras		again	like quaggas	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:12.

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 ×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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