Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 2

Then sailors arrived in the 1600s with rats, pigs and monkeys that ate dodos and their eggs on the ground, and by about 1690 the dodo was gone.

Who acts: sailors, rats, dodo · What happens: arrive, eat, be · To what, where: 1600s, dodos, ground

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 (sailors, rats, dodo), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 arrived	advmod
2	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 1600s	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 1600s	det
6	1600s	1600	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 arrived	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 rats	case
8	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 arrived	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pigs	punct
10	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rats	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 monkeys	cc
12	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rats	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 ate	nsubj
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rats	acl:relcl
15	dodos	dodo	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ate	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eggs	cc
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eggs	nmod:poss
18	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dodos	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ate	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gone	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gone	cc
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 1690	case
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 1690	advmod
26	1690	1690	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 gone	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dodo	det
28	dodo	dodo	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gone	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gone	cop
30	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 arrived	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	sailors		the 1600s	then	with rats and pigs and monkeys	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	rats and pigs and monkeys	dodos and sailors's eggs	the ground			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dodo=Patient
3	is	past	the dodo				by 1690; gone property	tree rules

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:2.

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): R3-conj-first ×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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/2/