Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 15

More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived are extinct, but today they vanish much faster than normal because of people.

Who acts: species, 99 percent, baiji · What happens: live, be, vanish

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 (species, 99 percent, baiji), 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	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 99	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	99	99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 percent	nummod
4	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 extinct	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 species	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 species	det
7	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 percent	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lived	nsubj
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 lived	advmod
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 species	acl:relcl
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 extinct	cop
12	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 vanish	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 vanish	cc
15	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vanish	obl:unmarked
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 vanish	nsubj
17	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 extinct	conj
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 faster	advmod
19	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 vanish	advmod
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 normal	case
21	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 faster	obl
22	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	24 people	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 because	fixed
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 vanish	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 extinct	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	all species	ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	99 percent of all species		extinct property	tree rules
3	vanish	present	baiji	today	because people; fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:15.

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, 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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