--- title: DNA showed the quagga was a kind of plains zebra, and a project has… — Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon,… · tree and pragmatics description: DNA showed the quagga was a kind of plains zebra, and a project has bred zebras that look like quaggas again. Who acts: DNA, quagga, project, zebras. 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 with --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 12 DNA showed the quagga was a kind of plains zebra, and a project has bred zebras that look like quaggas again. **Who acts:** DNA, quagga, project, zebras · **What happens:** show, be, breed, look · **To what, where:** kind plains zebra, zebras · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (DNA, quagga, project, zebras), 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:12 # text = DNA showed the quagga was a kind of plains zebra, and a project has bred zebras that look like quaggas again. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 DNA DNA NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 quagga quagga NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 plains plain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 bred breed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 17 zebras zebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 quaggas quagga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 again again ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **show** | past | DNA | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | the quagga | kind plains zebra | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **breed** | present · perfect | a project | zebras | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | present | zebras | | | | again | like quaggas | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:12`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Extinct forever: the dodo, the passeng…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/11/) - next →: [Extinct forever: the dodo, the passeng…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/)