Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 14
The baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin, lived only in China's Yangtze River; fishing nets, boats and dams caused its loss, and it was declared probably extinct after a search in 2006 found none.
Who acts: baiji, search · What happens: live, cause, declare, find · To what, where: Yangtze River, loss, quagga, none
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 (baiji, search), 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 baiji | det |
| 2 | baiji | baiji | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dolphin | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 dolphin | cc |
| 5 | Yangtze | Yangtze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 river | compound |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dolphin | compound |
| 7 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 baiji | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 baiji | acl |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 lived | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 River | case |
| 12 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 River | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 China | case |
| 14 | Yangtze | Yangtze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 River | compound |
| 15 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 nets | punct |
| 17 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nets | compound |
| 18 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 caused | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 boats | punct |
| 20 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 nets | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dams | cc |
| 22 | dams | dam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 boats | conj |
| 23 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 loss | nmod:poss |
| 25 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caused | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 declared | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 declared | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 declared | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 declared | aux:pass |
| 30 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 caused | conj |
| 31 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 32 extinct | advmod |
| 32 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 declared | xcomp |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 search | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 search | det |
| 35 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 extinct | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 2006 | case |
| 37 | 2006 | 2006 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 search | nmod |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 search | acl |
| 39 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 38 found | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the baiji or river dolphin not said here | China's Yangtze River | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | the baiji or river dolphin | quagga's loss | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition loss=Patient | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past · passive | quagga | extinct property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | find | past | a search in 2006 not said here | none | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic |
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:14.
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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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