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title: The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a striped meat-eating marsupi… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics
description: The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a striped meat-eating marsupial that looked like a dog; the last known one died in a zoo in 1936, and despite sightings no proof of any living since has been found. Who acts: thylacine, striped eating marsupial, last known one. A sentence of the lesson «Austral
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# Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 13

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The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a striped meat-eating marsupial that looked like a dog; the last known one died in a zoo in 1936, and despite sightings no proof of any living since has been found.

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**Who acts:** thylacine, striped eating marsupial, last known one · **What happens:** stripe, eat, be, look, know, die · **To what, where:** striped eating marsupial, proof, living

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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 (thylacine, striped eating marsupial, last known one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:13
# text = The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a striped meat-eating marsupial that looked like a dog; the last known one died in a zoo in 1936, and despite sightings no proof of any living since has been found.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thylacine	thylacine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	Tasmanian	tasmanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	striped	stripe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
11	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	marsupial	marsupial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:acl
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card
25	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1936	1936	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
33	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	sightings	sighting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
39	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stripe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger | a striped eating marsupial |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | past | a striped eating marsupial |  |  |  |  | like a dog | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **die** | past | the last known one |  |  |  |  | in 1936; in a zoo | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in zoo=Attribute |
| 7 | **find** | present · perfect · passive |  | no proof of any living |  |  |  | despite sightings | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 8 | **proof** |  |  | any living |  |  |  |  | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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