--- title: The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild by 1972; zoos bred a herd a… — Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales,… · tree and pragmatics description: The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild by 1972; zoos bred a herd and released them in Oman and other lands, and it was the first animal to go from extinct in the wild back to vulnerable. Who acts: Arabian oryx, zoos, oryx. 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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 (Arabian oryx, zoos, oryx), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:9 # text = The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild by 1972; zoos bred a herd and released them in Oman and other lands, and it was the first animal to go from extinct in the wild back to vulnerable. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Arabian Arabian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 oryx oryx NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1972 1972 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 bred breed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 released release VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Oman Oman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 amod _ _ 30 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 vulnerable vulnerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | past | the Arabian oryx | | | the wild | | by 1972; extinct *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **breed** | past | zoos | a herd | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **release** | past | zoos *not said here* | zoos *= zoo* | | Oman and other lands | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source | | 4 | **is a** | past | oryx | the first animal | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | the Arabian oryx *not said here* | | | extinct | | in the wild; to vulnerable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from extinct=Initial\_Location to vulnerable=Destination | 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:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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