--- title: Its cousin the baiji, a pale river dolphin with a long thin beak, wa… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: Its cousin the baiji, a pale river dolphin with a long thin beak, was searched for in 2006 and none were found: it is probably the first dolphin people drove to extinction. Who acts: cousin, people. 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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 (cousin, people), 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:3 # text = Its cousin the baiji, a pale river dolphin with a long thin beak, was searched for in 2006 and none were found: it is probably the first dolphin people drove to extinction. # 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): no change 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 baiji baiji NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 searched search VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 2006 2006 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 probably probably ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 31 amod _ _ 31 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 extinction extinction NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **search** | past · passive | | porpoise's cousin | | | | for 2006 | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for 2006=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past · passive | | none | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | cousin | the first dolphin | | | | probably *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **drive** | past | people | the first dolphin *not said here* | | extinction | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dolphin=Theme to extinction=Trajectory | 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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