Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 11
The black-footed ferret was thought extinct until a dog found one in Wyoming in 1981; a breeding programme saved it, and in 2020 a ferret was cloned from cells frozen in 1988.
Who acts: dog, breeding programme · What happens: think, find, save, clone, freeze · To what, where: footed ferret, one, Wyoming, dog, ferret, 2020
This is a sentence of the lesson «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» 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 (dog, breeding programme), 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 | 5 ferret | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 footed | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 black | punct |
| 4 | footed | foot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ferret | amod |
| 5 | ferret | ferret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | aux:pass |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | xcomp |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 found | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | advcl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Wyoming | case |
| 15 | Wyoming | Wyoming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1981 | case |
| 17 | 1981 | 1981 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 found | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 programme | det |
| 20 | breeding | breeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 programme | compound |
| 21 | programme | programme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saved | nsubj |
| 22 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saved | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cloned | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 cloned | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 2020 | case |
| 27 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 cloned | obl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 ferret | det |
| 29 | ferret | ferret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cloned | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 cloned | aux:pass |
| 31 | cloned | clone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 saved | conj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 cells | case |
| 33 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 cloned | obl |
| 34 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 cells | acl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 1988 | case |
| 36 | 1988 | 1988 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 frozen | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · passive | the footed ferret | extinct property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | a dog | one | Wyoming | in 1981 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||
| 3 | save | past | a breeding programme | dog | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | clone | past · passive | a ferret | 2020 | from cells | tree rules | |||
| 5 | freeze | participle | cells not said here | 1988 | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:11.
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. 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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