China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 12
The baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin, was called the goddess of the Yangtze in legends; a big search in 2006 found none, and scientists said it was probably extinct.
Who acts: big search, scientists, search · What happens: call, find, say, be · To what, where: baiji, legends, none · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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 (big search, scientists, search), 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 baiji | det |
| 2 | baiji | baiji | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dolphin | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dolphin | det |
| 5 | Yangtze | Yangtze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 river | compound |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dolphin | compound |
| 7 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 baiji | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 baiji | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | aux:pass |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 goddess | det |
| 12 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Yangtze | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Yangtze | det |
| 15 | Yangtze | Yangtze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 goddess | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 legends | case |
| 17 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 search | det |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 search | amod |
| 21 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 2006 | case |
| 23 | 2006 | 2006 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 search | nmod |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | parataxis |
| 25 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 24 found | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 28 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 extinct | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 extinct | cop |
| 32 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 33 extinct | advmod |
| 33 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 said | ccomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past · passive | the baiji | legends | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | find | past | a big search in 2006 | none | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | scientists | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | search | extinct, probably property | tree rules |
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:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:12.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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