--- title: Most kinds of living things that ever lived are extinct, so dying ou… — Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon,… · tree and pragmatics description: Most kinds of living things that ever lived are extinct, so dying out is natural, but today species are vanishing much faster than normal because of people, and that speed is what worries scientists. Who acts: living things, Most kinds, dying, today species. 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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 (living things, Most kinds, dying, today species), 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:3 # text = Most kinds of living things that ever lived are extinct, so dying out is natural, but today species are vanishing much faster than normal because of people, and that speed is what worries scientists. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 8 advmod _ _ 8 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 dying die VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 species species NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 vanishing vanish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 23 much much ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 parataxis _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ _ 27 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 29 case _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 36 nsubj _ _ 36 worries worry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 37 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | past | living things | | | | ever | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Most kinds of living things | | | | | extinct *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **die out** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **is** | present | dying | | | | | natural *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **vanish** | present · progressive | today species | | | | | because people | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | present | that speed | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **worry** | present | | scientists | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus scientist=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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): 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. 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