Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 3

Most kinds of living things that ever lived are extinct, so dying out is natural, but today species are vanishing much faster than normal because of people, and that speed is what worries scientists.

Who acts: living things, Most kinds, dying, today species, speed · What happens: live, be, die out, vanish, worry · To what, where: scientists

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 (living things, Most kinds, dying, today species), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 kinds	amod
2	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 extinct	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 things	case
4	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kinds	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 lived	advmod
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 things	acl:relcl
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 extinct	cop
10	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 natural	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 natural	advmod
13	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 natural	csubj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 dying	compound:prt
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 natural	cop
16	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 extinct	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 vanishing	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 vanishing	cc
19	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 species	compound
20	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 vanishing	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 vanishing	aux
22	vanishing	vanish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 extinct	advcl
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 faster	advmod
24	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 vanishing	parataxis
25	than	than	ADP	_	26 normal	case
26	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 faster	obl
27	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	29 people	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 because	fixed
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 vanishing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 worries	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 worries	cc
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 speed	det
33	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 what	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 what	cop
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 worries	nsubj
36	worries	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 extinct	conj
37	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 worries	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 extinct	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	gerund					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	living things		ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	Most kinds of living things			extinct property	tree rules
4	die out	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	is	present	dying			natural property	tree rules
6	vanish	present · progressive	today species			because people	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	present	that speed				tree rules
8	worry	present		scientists			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus scientist=Experiencer

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:3.

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): 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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