The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 6

The dodo was a large bird that could not fly, related to pigeons and doves, and it lived only on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.

Who acts: dodo, large bird · What happens: be, not fly, live · To what, where: large bird, island

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, large bird), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fly	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fly	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 fly	advmod
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bird	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 related	punct
12	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 pigeons	case
14	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 related	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 doves	cc
16	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pigeons	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lived	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lived	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lived	nsubj
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fly	conj
21	only	only	ADV	_	24 island	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 island	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 island	det
24	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lived	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Mauritius	case
26	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 island	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 Ocean	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Ocean	det
29	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Ocean	amod
30	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 island	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the dodo	a large bird		tree rules
2	not fly	could	a large bird			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live	past	Dodo		the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location

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:6.

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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