--- title: The quagga was a zebra with stripes only on its front half; it was h… — Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon,… · tree and pragmatics description: The quagga was a zebra with stripes only on its front half; it was hunted out in South Africa, and the last died in a zoo in 1883. Who acts: quagga, last. A sentence of the lesson «Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more» of the biology course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Extinct forever: the dodo, the passeng…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/) / 11 # Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 11 The quagga was a zebra with stripes only on its front half; it was hunted out in South Africa, and the last died in a zoo in 1883. **Who acts:** quagga, last · **What happens:** be, hunt out, die · **To what, where:** zebra, quagga, South Africa This is a sentence of the lesson «Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more» 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 (quagga, last), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more.lesson:11 # text = The quagga was a zebra with stripes only on its front half; it was hunted out in South Africa, and the last died in a zoo in 1883. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 quagga quagga NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 7 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 hunted hunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nsubj _ _ 25 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 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 1883 1883 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 31 . . 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 | the quagga | a zebra | | | | with stripes on quagga's front half | tree rules | | 2 | **hunt out** | past · passive | | quagga | | South Africa | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in africa=Location | | 3 | **die** | past | the last | | | | | in 1883; in a zoo | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in zoo=Attribute | 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:281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more.lesson:11`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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