Endangered animals and extinction, sentence 3
Cartoons draw the dodo as a fat, stupid bird that deserved to vanish; in truth it was well suited to its island, and it died out because sailors' rats, pigs and monkeys ate its eggs.
Who acts: Cartoons, fat stupid bird, dodo, rats · What happens: draw, deserve, vanish, suit, die out, eat · To what, where: dodo, truth, eggs
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 (Cartoons, fat stupid bird, dodo, rats), 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 draw | nsubj |
| 2 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dodo | det |
| 4 | dodo | dodo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 draw | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 fat | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 7 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bird | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bird | punct |
| 9 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bird | amod |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 draw | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 deserved | nsubj |
| 12 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bird | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 vanish | mark |
| 14 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 deserved | xcomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 suited | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 truth | case |
| 17 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suited | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 suited | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 suited | aux:pass |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 suited | advmod |
| 21 | suited | suit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 draw | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 island | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 island | nmod:poss |
| 24 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suited | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 died | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 died | cc |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 died | nsubj |
| 28 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 suited | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 died | compound:prt |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 ate | mark |
| 31 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 rats | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 31 sailors | case |
| 33 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 ate | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pigs | punct |
| 35 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 rats | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 monkeys | cc |
| 37 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 rats | conj |
| 38 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 died | advcl |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 40 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 ate | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | Cartoons | the dodo | a fat stupid bird obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dodo=Theme | |||
| 2 | deserve | past | a fat stupid bird | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | vanish | to-infinitive | a fat stupid bird not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | suit | past · passive | dodo | truth | to dodo's island; well property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | die out | past | dodo | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | eat | past | sailors's rats and pigs and monkeys | dodo's eggs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient |
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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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