China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 13
It may be the first dolphin driven extinct by people, through boats, nets, electric fishing and dams.
Who acts: baiji · What happens: be, drive · To what, where: first dolphin, boats
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 (baiji), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dolphin | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 dolphin | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dolphin | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dolphin | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 dolphin | amod |
| 6 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dolphin | acl |
| 8 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 driven | xcomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 driven | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 boats | punct |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 boats | case |
| 13 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 driven | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nets | punct |
| 15 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 boats | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fishing | punct |
| 17 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fishing | amod |
| 18 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boats | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dams | cc |
| 20 | dams | dam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 boats | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dolphin | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may | baiji | the first dolphin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | participle | the first dolphin not said here | boats and nets and electric fishing and dams | by people; extinct property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through boat=Trajectory |
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:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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