Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 7
The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a striped, meat-eating marsupial, an animal whose babies grow in a pouch, shaped like a wolf; farmers hunted it for rewards, and the last known one died in Hobart Zoo in 1936.
Who acts: babies, farmers, last known one · What happens: eat, be, grow, shape, hunt, know · To what, where: striped eating marsupial, pouch, wolf
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 (babies, farmers, last known one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thylacine | det |
| 2 | thylacine | thylacine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 striped | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tiger | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 tiger | cc |
| 5 | Tasmanian | tasmanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tiger | amod |
| 6 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thylacine | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thylacine | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 marsupial | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 marsupial | det |
| 10 | striped | stripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 marsupial | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eating | punct |
| 12 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eating | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 meat | punct |
| 14 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 marsupial | amod |
| 15 | marsupial | marsupial | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 animal | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 animal | det |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marsupial | appos |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 babies | nmod:poss |
| 20 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grow | nsubj |
| 21 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 animal | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 pouch | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pouch | det |
| 24 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grow | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shaped | punct |
| 26 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 pouch | acl |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 wolf | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 wolf | det |
| 29 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shaped | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 farmers | punct |
| 31 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 hunted | nsubj |
| 32 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 marsupial | parataxis |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 hunted | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 rewards | case |
| 35 | rewards | reward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 hunted | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 died | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 died | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 one | det |
| 39 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 one | amod |
| 40 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 one | amod |
| 41 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 died | nsubj |
| 42 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 hunted | conj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 Zoo | case |
| 44 | Hobart | hobart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Zoo | compound |
| 45 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 died | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 1936 | case |
| 47 | 1936 | 1936 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 died | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 marsupial | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | a striped eating marsupial | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | grow | present | babies | a pouch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pouch=Location | ||||
| 4 | shape | participle | a pouch not said here | like a wolf | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | hunt | past | farmers | wolf | for rewards | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Location for reward=Theme | |||
| 6 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | die | past | the last known one | in 1936; in Hobart Zoo | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in zoo=Attribute |
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:7.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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