Endangered animals and extinction, sentence 0
Extinct means gone for ever: when the last animal of a kind dies, no zoo, scientist or wish can bring that kind back.
Who acts: last animal, Extinct means · What happens: go, die, bring back · To what, where: Extinct means, kind
This is a sentence of the lesson «Endangered animals and extinction» 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 (last animal, Extinct means), 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 | Extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | amod |
| 2 | means | means | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 23 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | acl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 ever | case |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 gone | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 dies | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 dies | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 animal | det |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 animal | amod |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dies | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kind | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 animal | nmod |
| 14 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bring | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 zoo | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 zoo | det |
| 17 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scientist | punct |
| 19 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 zoo | conj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 wish | cc |
| 21 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 zoo | conj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 bring | aux |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 kind | det |
| 25 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 bring | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | participle | Extinct means not said here | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ever=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | die | present | the last animal of a kind | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | bring back | can | Extinct means | that kind | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |
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:077-endangered-animals-and-extinction.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×3. 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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