The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 6
In 2025 a company was reported to have made wolf pups with some genes changed to look like the extinct dire wolf; they are grey wolves with white fur and a few changes, and scientists disagree about calling it de-extinction.
Who acts: genes, scientists · What happens: report, make, change, look, be, disagree · To what, where: company, 2025, wolf pups, grey wolves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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 (genes, scientists), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2025 | case |
| 2 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 reported | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 company | det |
| 4 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reported | aux:pass |
| 6 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 made | mark |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 reported | xcomp |
| 10 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pups | compound |
| 11 | pups | pup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 changed | mark |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 genes | det |
| 14 | genes | gene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 changed | nsubj |
| 15 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pups | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 changed | advcl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 wolf | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wolf | det |
| 20 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wolf | amod |
| 21 | dire | dire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wolf | amod |
| 22 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 wolves | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 wolves | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 wolves | cop |
| 26 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wolves | amod |
| 27 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reported | parataxis |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 fur | case |
| 29 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fur | amod |
| 30 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wolves | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 changes | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 changes | det |
| 33 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 changes | amod |
| 34 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fur | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 disagree | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 disagree | cc |
| 37 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 disagree | nsubj |
| 38 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 wolves | conj |
| 39 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 40 calling | mark |
| 40 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 disagree | advcl |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 calling | obj |
| 42 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 extinction | amod |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 de | punct |
| 44 | extinction | extinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 calling | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | a company | 2025 | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive · perfect | wolf pups | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pup=Product | |||||
| 3 | change | participle | some genes | wolf pups not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pup=Patient | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | some genes not said here | like the extinct dire wolf | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | genes = gene | grey wolves | with white fur and a few changes | tree rules | |||
| 6 | disagree | present | scientists | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | call | gerund | scientists not said here | company | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.lesson:6.
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 ×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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