--- title: More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived are extinct, but… — Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon,… · tree and pragmatics description: More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived are extinct, but today they vanish much faster than normal because of people. Who acts: species, 99 percent, baiji. A sentence of the lesson «Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more» of the biology course of Mova's p --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more, sentence 15 More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived are extinct, but today they vanish much faster than normal because of people. **Who acts:** species, 99 percent, baiji · **What happens:** live, be, vanish 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 (species, 99 percent, baiji), 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:15 # text = More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived are extinct, but today they vanish much faster than normal because of people. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 3 advmod _ _ 2 than than ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 99 99 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 species species NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 10 advmod _ _ 10 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 vanish vanish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 much much ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 22 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 24 case _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 25 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | all species | | | | ever | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | 99 percent of all species | | | | | extinct *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **vanish** | present | baiji | | | | today | because people; fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more.lesson:15`. **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, 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. 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