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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 (dodo, sailors, rats, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:6 # text = The dodo was a big flightless pigeon from Mauritius; it died out in the late 1600s after sailors brought rats, pigs and monkeys that ate its eggs, and people hunted it too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dodo dodo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 flightless flightless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Mauritius Mauritius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 18 after after SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 20 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl 21 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl:relcl 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 too too ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the dodo | a big flightless pigeon | | Mauritius | | | tree rules | | 2 | **die out** | past | dodo | | | | | in the late 1600s | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1600=Attribute | | 3 | **bring** | past | sailors | rats and pigs and monkeys | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | past | rats and pigs and monkeys | dodo's eggs | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | | 5 | **hunt** | past | people | dodo | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, 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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