--- title: The dodo was a big flightless pigeon from Mauritius, with small wing… — Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon,… · tree and pragmatics description: The dodo was a big flightless pigeon from Mauritius, with small wings it could not fly with, that lived with no predators; sailors, rats, pigs and monkeys arrived in the 1600s, and it was gone by about 1690. Who acts: dodo, big flightless pigeon, sailors. 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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 (dodo, big flightless pigeon, sailors), 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:4 # text = The dodo was a big flightless pigeon from Mauritius, with small wings it could not fly with, that lived with no predators; sailors, rats, pigs and monkeys arrived in the 1600s, and it was gone by about 1690. # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dodo dodo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 flightless flightless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Mauritius Mauritius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 17 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 33 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 about about ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 1690 1690 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 dodo | a big flightless pigeon | | Mauritius | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **fly** | could | dodo | small wings *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | | 3 | **live** | past | a big flightless pigeon | | | | | with no predators and pigs and monkeys | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with predator=Location | | 4 | **arrive** | past | sailors and rats | | | the 1600s | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go** | past · passive | | dodo | | | | by 1690 | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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:4`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Extinct forever: the dodo, the passeng…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/3/) - next →: [Extinct forever: the dodo, the passeng…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/5/) - ↑ 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/)