Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 9
The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild by 1972; zoos bred a herd and released them in Oman and other lands, and it was the first animal to go from extinct in the wild back to vulnerable.
Who acts: Arabian oryx, zoos, oryx · What happens: be, breed, release, go · To what, where: wild, herd, zoos, Oman, first animal, extinct
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 (Arabian oryx, zoos, oryx), 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 | 3 oryx | det |
| 2 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 oryx | amod |
| 3 | oryx | oryx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extinct | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 extinct | cop |
| 5 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wild | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wild | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extinct | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 1972 | case |
| 10 | 1972 | 1972 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 extinct | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 bred | punct |
| 12 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bred | nsubj |
| 13 | bred | breed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 extinct | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 herd | det |
| 15 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bred | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 released | cc |
| 17 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bred | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 released | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Oman | case |
| 20 | Oman | Oman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 released | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lands | cc |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lands | amod |
| 23 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Oman | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 animal | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 animal | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 animal | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 animal | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 animal | det |
| 29 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 animal | amod |
| 30 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extinct | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 animal | acl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 extinct | case |
| 34 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 go | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 wild | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 wild | det |
| 37 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 go | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 vulnerable | case |
| 40 | vulnerable | vulnerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 go | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 extinct | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Arabian oryx | the wild | by 1972; extinct property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | breed | past | zoos | a herd | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | release | past | zoos not said here | zoos = zoo | Oman and other lands | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source | |||
| 4 | is a | past | oryx | the first animal | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | the Arabian oryx not said here | extinct | in the wild; to vulnerable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from extinct=Initial_Location to vulnerable=Destination |
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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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