The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 7

T. rex cannot be cloned, because cloning needs DNA and dinosaur DNA is long gone; birds are living dinosaurs, so a bird is the closest we can get.

Who acts: cloning, DNA, birds, bird, we · What happens: not clone, need, be, live, get · To what, where: T. rex, dinosaurs

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 (cloning, DNA, birds, bird), 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	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rex	compound
2	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloned	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cloned	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 cloned	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cloned	aux:pass
6	cloned	clone	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 needs	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 needs	mark
9	cloning	clone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	nsubj
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cloned	advcl
11	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gone	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 DNA	cc
13	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 DNA	compound
14	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 DNA	conj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	cop
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 gone	advmod
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 needs	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 living	punct
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 living	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 living	aux
21	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 cloned	conj
22	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 living	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 closest	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	29 closest	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bird	det
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 closest	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 closest	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 closest	det
29	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 living	parataxis
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 get	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 get	aux
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 closest	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cloned	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not clone	can · passive		T. rex		tree rules
2	need	present	cloning			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is	present	DNA and dinosaur DNA		go, long property	tree rules
4	live	present · progressive	birds	dinosaurs		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dinosaur=Location
5	is	present	a bird		close property	tree rules
6	get	can	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:7.

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, 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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