--- title: Millions of chinchillas were hunted for fur coats in the 1800s and 1… — Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prair… · tree and pragmatics description: Millions of chinchillas were hunted for fur coats in the 1800s and 1900s; both wild kinds are now endangered, and most pet chinchillas come from a few taken to the USA in the 1920s. Who acts: most pet chinchillas. 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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 (most pet chinchillas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:16 # text = Millions of chinchillas were hunted for fur coats in the 1800s and 1900s; both wild kinds are now endangered, and most pet chinchillas come from a few taken to the USA in the 1920s. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 chinchillas chinchilla NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 hunted hunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 coats coat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 1800s 1800 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 1900s 1900 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 16 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:aux:pass 19 now now ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 endangered endangered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 24 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 chinchillas chinchilla NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ _ 30 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 1920s 1920s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 30 obl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **hunt** | past · passive | | Millions of chinchillas | | the 1800s and 1900s | | for fur coats | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for coat=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present · passive | | both wild kinds | | | now | endangered *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | present | most pet chinchillas | | | a few | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from few=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **take** | participle | | | | the 1920s | | to the USA *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to usa=Result | 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:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:16`. **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 ×4, 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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