--- title: The baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin, was called the goddess of the… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: The baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin, was called the goddess of the Yangtze in legends; a big search in 2006 found none, and scientists said it was probably extinct. Who acts: big search, scientists, search. 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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 (big search, scientists, search), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:12 # text = The baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin, was called the goddess of the Yangtze in legends; a big search in 2006 found none, and scientists said it was probably extinct. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 baiji baiji NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 Yangtze Yangtze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 goddess goddess NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Yangtze Yangtze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 2006 2006 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nmod _ _ 24 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 25 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 probably probably ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 ccomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | the baiji | | legends | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **find** | past | a big search in 2006 | none | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | scientists | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | search | | | | | extinct, probably *property* | tree rules | 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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