Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 11

Diprotodon was still alive when people reached Australia, and whether people helped it die out is still argued.

Who acts: Diprotodon, people, relative · What happens: be, reach, help, die out, argue · To what, where: Australia, relative · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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 (Diprotodon, people, relative), 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	Diprotodon	Diprotodon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 alive	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alive	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 alive	advmod
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 reached	mark
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reached	nsubj
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alive	advcl
8	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 argued	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 argued	cc
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	13 helped	mark
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 helped	nsubj
13	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 argued	csubj:pass
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 helped	obj
15	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 helped	xcomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 die	compound:prt
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 argued	aux:pass
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 argued	advmod
19	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 alive	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 alive	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Diprotodon		still	alive property	tree rules
2	reach	past	people	Australia			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent australia=Theme
3	help	past	people	relative			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	die out	infinitive	relative not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	argue speech: disagree	present · passive	Diprotodon not said here		still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»

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:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.lesson:11.

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.

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