--- title: The dodo of Mauritius could not fly and had no fear of people; it wa… — The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evoluti… · tree and pragmatics description: The dodo of Mauritius could not fly and had no fear of people; it was wiped out in the 1600s by people and by the rats, pigs and other animals they brought, which ate its eggs. Who acts: dodo, people, 1600s. 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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, people, 1600s), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:15 # text = The dodo of Mauritius could not fly and had no fear of people; it was wiped out in the 1600s by people and by the rats, pigs and other animals they brought, which ate its eggs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dodo dodo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Mauritius Mauritius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 wiped wipe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 . . 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 | **not** **fly** | could | the dodo of Mauritius | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | the dodo of Mauritius *not said here* | no fear of people | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | | 3 | **wipe out** | past · passive | people | dodo | | the 1600s and the rats and pigs and other animals | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1600=Trajectory | | 4 | **bring** | past | people | the 1600s and the rats and pigs and other animals *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent 1600=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | past | the 1600s and the rats and pigs and other animals | dodo's eggs | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | | 6 | **fear** | | | people | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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