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title: Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his kind from Pinta Island, di… — The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Dar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his kind from Pinta Island, died in 2012. Who acts: Lonesome George. A sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 5

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Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his kind from Pinta Island, died in 2012.

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**Who acts:** Lonesome George · **What happens:** die

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» 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 (Lonesome George), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson:5
# text = Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his kind from Pinta Island, died in 2012.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.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): no change
1	Lonesome	Lonesome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Pinta	Pinta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Lonesome George |  |  |  |  | in 2012 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2012=Attribute |

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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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**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:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson:5`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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