Endangered animals and extinction, sentence 6

The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a striped, dog-like pouched mammal; farmers blamed it for killing sheep and were paid to kill it, and the last known one died in Hobart Zoo in 1936, and despite many reported sightings there has never been clear proof any survived.

Who acts: farmers, last known one, clear proof · What happens: be, blame, kill, pay, know, die · To what, where: pigeon, sheep, clear proof, any

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 (farmers, last known one, clear proof), 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 thylacine	det
2	thylacine	thylacine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mammal	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tiger	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 tiger	cc
5	Tasmanian	tasmanian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tiger	amod
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thylacine	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thylacine	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 striped	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mammal	det
10	striped	striped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mammal	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mammal	punct
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mammal	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 dog	punct
14	like	like	ADJ	_	12 dog	amod
15	pouched	pouch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mammal	amod
16	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 blamed	punct
18	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 blamed	nsubj
19	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 mammal	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 blamed	obj
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 killing	mark
22	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 blamed	advcl
23	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 killing	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 paid	cc
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 paid	aux:pass
26	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 blamed	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 kill	mark
28	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 paid	xcomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kill	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 died	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 last	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 one	det
33	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 one	amod
34	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 one	amod
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 died	nsubj
36	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 mammal	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 Zoo	case
38	Hobart	hobart	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Zoo	compound
39	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 died	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 1936	case
41	1936	1936	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	36 died	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 proof	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 proof	cc
44	despite	despite	ADP	_	47 sightings	case
45	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 sightings	amod
46	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 sightings	amod
47	sightings	sighting	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 proof	obl
48	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	53 proof	expl
49	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 proof	aux
50	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	53 proof	advmod
51	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 proof	cop
52	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 proof	amod
53	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mammal	conj
54	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	55 survived	nsubj:pass
55	survived	survive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 proof	acl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 mammal	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				striped property	tree rules
2	blame	past	farmers	pigeon			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	kill	gerund	farmers not said here	sheep			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
4	pay	past · passive	farmers not said here				tree rules
5	kill	to-infinitive	farmers not said here	pigeon			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	know	participle					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	die	past	the last known one			in 1936; in Hobart Zoo	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in zoo=Attribute
8	report	participle					vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	not is a	present · perfect		clear proof	there	despite many reported sightings	tree rules
10	survive	participle · passive	clear proof not said here	any			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Circumstance

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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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