The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 1

The Dodo who runs the Caucus-race was a real bird, a big flightless pigeon from the island of Mauritius, and it died out long before Alice was written: no one alive has seen a dodo.

Who acts: Dodo, one · What happens: run, be, die out, write, see · To what, where: Caucus race, real bird, Alice, dodo

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» 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 (Dodo, one), 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 Dodo	det
2	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bird	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Dodo	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 race	det
6	Caucus	caucus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 race	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Caucus	punct
8	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	obj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bird	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bird	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pigeon	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pigeon	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pigeon	amod
16	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pigeon	amod
17	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bird	appos
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 island	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 island	det
20	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pigeon	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Mauritius	case
22	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 island	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 died	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 died	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 died	nsubj
26	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bird	conj
27	out	out	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 died	advmod
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 written	mark
30	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 written	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 written	aux:pass
32	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 died	advcl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 seen	punct
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seen	nsubj
36	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 one	amod
37	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 seen	aux
38	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 bird	parataxis
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 dodo	det
40	dodo	dodo	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seen	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 bird	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	present	the Dodo	the Caucus race		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory
2	is a	past	the Dodo	a real bird		tree rules
3	die out	past	Dodo		long property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	write	past · passive		Alice		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	see	present · perfect	no one	a dodo		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dodo=Stimulus

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:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:1.

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 ×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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