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title: People wiped out the dodo, but people also saved the bald eagle and… — The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evoluti… · tree and pragmatics
description: People wiped out the dodo, but people also saved the bald eagle and brought wolves back to Yellowstone, so our choices decide which story comes next. Who acts: People, choices, story. A sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» of the biology 
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# The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 7

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People wiped out the dodo, but people also saved the bald eagle and brought wolves back to Yellowstone, so our choices decide which story comes next.

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**Who acts:** People, choices, story · **What happens:** wipe out, save, bring back, decide, come · **To what, where:** dodo, bald eagle, wolves, Yellowstone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, choices, story), 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:7
# text = People wiped out the dodo, but people also saved the bald eagle and brought wolves back to Yellowstone, so our choices decide which story comes next.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dodo	dodo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Yellowstone	Yellowstone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	choices	choice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	decide	decide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	26	det	_	_
26	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
28	next	next	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wipe out** | past | People | the dodo |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent dodo=Source |
| 2 | **save** | past | people | the bald eagle |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme |
| 3 | **bring back** | past | people *not said here* | wolves | Yellowstone |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme to yellowstone=Destination |
| 4 | **decide** | present | our choices |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | present | which story |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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