China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 3

Its cousin the baiji, a pale river dolphin with a long thin beak, was searched for in 2006 and none were found: it is probably the first dolphin people drove to extinction.

Who acts: cousin, people · What happens: search, find, be, drive · To what, where: cousin, none, first dolphin, extinction

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 (cousin, people), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 searched	nsubj:pass
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baiji	det
4	baiji	baiji	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cousin	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dolphin	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dolphin	det
7	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dolphin	amod
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dolphin	compound
9	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 baiji	appos
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 beak	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 beak	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beak	amod
13	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beak	amod
14	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dolphin	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cousin	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 searched	aux:pass
17	searched	search	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 2006	case
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 2006	case
20	2006	2006	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 searched	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
22	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 found	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	aux:pass
24	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 searched	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 drove	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dolphin	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 dolphin	cop
28	probably	probably	ADV	_	31 dolphin	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dolphin	det
30	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 dolphin	amod
31	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 searched	conj
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 drove	nsubj
33	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dolphin	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 extinction	case
35	extinction	extinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 drove	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 searched	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	search	past · passive		porpoise's cousin		for 2006	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for 2006=Theme
2	find	past · passive		none			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	is a	present	cousin	the first dolphin		probably property	tree rules
4	drive	past	people	the first dolphin not said here	extinction		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dolphin=Theme to extinction=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:3.

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): no change. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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