Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 16
Animals thought extinct that turn up alive again are called Lazarus species, like the coelacanth fish, the takahe bird of New Zealand and the Lord Howe Island stick insect.
Who acts: Animals · What happens: think, turn up, call · To what, where: Animals · 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 (Animals), 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 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Animals | acl |
| 3 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | xcomp |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Animals | acl:relcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 turn | compound:prt |
| 7 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 turn | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 turn | advmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | aux:pass |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | Lazarus | Lazarus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 species | compound |
| 12 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fish | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 fish | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fish | det |
| 16 | coelacanth | coelacanth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fish | compound |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 species | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bird | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bird | det |
| 20 | takahe | takahe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bird | compound |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fish | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Zealand | case |
| 23 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Zealand | amod |
| 24 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bird | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 insect | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 insect | det |
| 27 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Island | compound |
| 28 | Howe | Howe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Island | compound |
| 29 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 insect | compound |
| 30 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 insect | compound |
| 31 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fish | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | participle | Animals not said here | extinct property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn up | present | Animals | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | Animals | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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.
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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 ×2, 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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