Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 8
People still report thylacine sightings, but none have been proven.
Who acts: People · What happens: report, prove · To what, where: thylacine sightings, none
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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 report | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 report | advmod |
| 3 | report | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thylacine | thylacine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sightings | compound |
| 5 | sightings | sighting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 report | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 proven | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 proven | cc |
| 8 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 proven | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 proven | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 proven | aux:pass |
| 11 | proven | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 report | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 report | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | present | People | thylacine sightings | still | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sighting=Patient | |||
| 2 | prove | present · perfect · passive | none | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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