Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 5

Dodos were not stupid: they had never met predators, and animals on islands often lose their fear and their flight; the real problem was the animals people brought.

Who acts: Dodos, sailors, animals, people · What happens: not be, not meet, lose, be, bring, fear · To what, where: predators, fear, real problem

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 (Dodos, sailors, animals, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

neg

teacher

kept the draft

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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