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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 (baiji, search), 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:14 # text = The baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin, lived only in China's Yangtze River; fishing nets, boats and dams caused its loss, and it was declared probably extinct after a search in 2006 found none. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 baiji baiji NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 Yangtze Yangtze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 Yangtze Yangtze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 18 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 dams dam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 declared declare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 31 probably probably ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 33 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 2006 2006 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obl 38 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl _ _ 39 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | the baiji or river dolphin *not said here* | | | China's Yangtze River | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location | | 2 | **cause** | past | the baiji or river dolphin | quagga's loss | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition loss=Patient | | 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive | | quagga | | | | extinct *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | | 4 | **find** | past | a search in 2006 *not said here* | none | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic | 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:14`. **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 ×4, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Extinct forever: the dodo, the passeng…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/12/) - next →: [Extinct forever: the dodo, the passeng…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/15/) - ↑ 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/)