--- title: The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a striped, meat-eating marsup… — Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon,… · tree and pragmatics description: The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a striped, meat-eating marsupial, an animal whose babies grow in a pouch, shaped like a wolf; farmers hunted it for rewards, and the last known one died in Hobart Zoo in 1936. Who acts: babies, farmers, last known one. 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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 (babies, farmers, last known one), 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:7 # text = The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a striped, meat-eating marsupial, an animal whose babies grow in a pouch, shaped like a wolf; farmers hunted it for rewards, and the last known one died in Hobart Zoo in 1936. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 thylacine thylacine NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 Tasmanian tasmanian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 10 striped stripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 amod _ _ 15 marsupial marsupial NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 19 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 rewards reward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:acl 41 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:nsubj|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 Hobart hobart PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=45:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 45 Zoo Zoo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 1936 1936 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 obl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | | a striped eating marsupial | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | present | babies | | | a pouch | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pouch=Location | | 4 | **shape** | participle | | a pouch *not said here* | | | | like a wolf | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **hunt** | past | farmers | wolf | | | | for rewards | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Location for reward=Theme | | 6 | **know** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **die** | past | the last known one | | | | | in 1936; in Hobart Zoo | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in zoo=Attribute | 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:7`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/6/) - next →: [Extinct forever: the dodo, the passeng…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/8/) - ↑ 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/)