Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 9

Steller's sea cow was a giant, gentle cousin of the manatee, up to about 8 metres long; Europeans found it near Russia's islands in 1741 and hunted it to extinction in 27 years.

Who acts: sea cow, Europeans · What happens: be, find, hunt · To what, where: giant gentle cousin, manatee, islands

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 (sea cow, Europeans), 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	Steller	Steller	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cow	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Steller	case
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cow	compound
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cousin	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cousin	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cousin	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cousin	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 giant	punct
9	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cousin	amod
10	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 manatee	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 manatee	det
13	manatee	manatee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cousin	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 metres	punct
15	up	up	ADV	_	18 8	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 up	fixed
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 8	advmod
18	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 metres	nummod
19	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cousin	nmod:unmarked
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 metres	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 Europeans	punct
22	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	obj
25	near	near	ADP	_	28 islands	case
26	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 islands	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Russia	case
28	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 found	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 1741	case
30	1741	1741	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 found	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hunted	cc
32	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 found	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hunted	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 extinction	case
35	extinction	extinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hunted	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 years	case
37	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 years	nummod
38	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hunted	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cousin	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Steller's sea cow	a giant gentle cousin			of the manatee; 8 metres nmod:unmarked	tree rules
2	find	past	Europeans	manatee	Russia's islands		in 1741	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	hunt	past	Europeans not said here	manatee		year	to extinction	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:9.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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