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title: It may be the first dolphin driven extinct by people, through boats,… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: It may be the first dolphin driven extinct by people, through boats, nets, electric fishing and dams. Who acts: baiji. A sentence of the lesson «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 13

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It may be the first dolphin driven extinct by people, through boats, nets, electric fishing and dams.

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**Who acts:** baiji · **What happens:** be, drive · **To what, where:** first dolphin, boats

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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 (baiji), 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:13
# text = It may be the first dolphin driven extinct by people, through boats, nets, electric fishing and dams.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	dams	dam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | may | baiji | the first dolphin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** | participle |  | the first dolphin *not said here* |  | boats and nets and electric fishing and dams |  | by people; extinct *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through boat=Trajectory |

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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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**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:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:13`.

**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, R5-strong ×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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