--- title: Dodos were not stupid: they had never met predators, and animals on… — Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon,… · tree and pragmatics description: Dodos were not stupid: they had never met predators, and animals on islands often lose their fear and their flight; the real problem was the animals people brought. Who acts: Dodos, sailors, animals, people. 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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 (Dodos, sailors, animals, people), 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:5 # text = Dodos were not stupid: they had never met predators, and animals on islands often lose their fear and their flight; the real problem was the animals people brought. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dodos dodo PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 10 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det 29 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | past | Dodos | | | | | stupid *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **meet** | past · perfect | sailors *= sailor* | predators | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent predator=Co-Agent | | 3 | **lose** | present | animals on islands | sailors's fear and sailors's flight | | | | often *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality | | 4 | **is a** | past | | the real problem | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bring** | past | people | the real problem *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Theme | | 6 | **fear** | | sailors *= sailor* | | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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:5`. **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, 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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