The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 15

The dodo of Mauritius could not fly and had no fear of people; it was wiped out in the 1600s by people and by the rats, pigs and other animals they brought, which ate its eggs.

Who acts: dodo, people, 1600s · What happens: not fly, have, wipe out, bring, eat, fear · To what, where: fear, dodo, 1600s, eggs, people

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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 (dodo, people, 1600s), 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	2 dodo	det
2	dodo	dodo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Mauritius	case
4	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dodo	nmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fly	advmod
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 fear	det
11	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 people	case
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fear	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 wiped	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wiped	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wiped	aux:pass
17	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fly	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 wiped	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 1600s	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 1600s	det
21	1600s	1600	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	17 wiped	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 people	case
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wiped	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rats	cc
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 rats	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rats	det
27	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 1600s	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pigs	punct
29	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 rats	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 animals	cc
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 animals	amod
32	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 1600s	conj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 brought	nsubj
34	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 1600s	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ate	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 ate	nsubj
37	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 1600s	conj
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 eggs	nmod:poss
39	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 ate	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fly	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not fly	could	the dodo of Mauritius			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the dodo of Mauritius not said here	no fear of people		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient
3	wipe out	past · passive	people	dodo	the 1600s and the rats and pigs and other animals	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1600=Trajectory
4	bring	past	people	the 1600s and the rats and pigs and other animals not said here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent 1600=Theme
5	eat	past	the 1600s and the rats and pigs and other animals	dodo's eggs		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
6	fear			people		nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:15.

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 ×2, 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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