--- title: Dodos were big flightless birds that lived only on Mauritius in the… — Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glypt… · tree and pragmatics description: Dodos were big flightless birds that lived only on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, with no predators and no fear of people, and they died out in the 1600s, about a hundred years after sailors arrived. Who acts: Dodos, big flightless birds, sailors. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dodos, big flightless birds, sailors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:13 # text = Dodos were big flightless birds that lived only on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, with no predators and no fear of people, and they died out in the 1600s, about a hundred years after sailors arrived. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson # annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dodos dodo PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 flightless flightless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Mauritius Mauritius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 27 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 33 about about ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl:unmarked 37 after after SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:advcl 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Dodos | big flightless birds | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | past | big flightless birds | | | Mauritius | | in the Indian Ocean; with no predators and no fear of people | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location | | 3 | **die out** | past | dodos *= dodo* | | | | | in the 1600s | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1600=Attribute | | 4 | **arrive** | past | sailors | | | | year | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fear** | | | people | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:13`. **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, R8-pos-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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