The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 7

People wiped out the dodo, but people also saved the bald eagle and brought wolves back to Yellowstone, so our choices decide which story comes next.

Who acts: People, choices, story · What happens: wipe out, save, bring back, decide, come · To what, where: dodo, bald eagle, wolves, Yellowstone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (People, choices, story), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wiped	nsubj
2	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 wiped	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dodo	det
5	dodo	dodo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wiped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saved	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 saved	cc
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saved	nsubj
9	also	also	ADV	_	10 saved	advmod
10	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wiped	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eagle	det
12	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eagle	amod
13	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saved	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 brought	cc
15	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saved	conj
16	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 brought	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 brought	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Yellowstone	case
19	Yellowstone	Yellowstone	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 brought	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 decide	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 decide	advmod
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 choices	nmod:poss
23	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 decide	nsubj
24	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 brought	conj
25	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	26 story	det
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 comes	nsubj
27	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 decide	ccomp
28	next	next	ADV	_	27 comes	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wiped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wipe out	past	People	the dodo			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent dodo=Source
2	save	past	people	the bald eagle			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme
3	bring back	past	people not said here	wolves	Yellowstone		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme to yellowstone=Destination
4	decide	present	our choices				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	present	which story			next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: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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