--- title: Gigantopithecus died out a few hundred thousand years ago when its f… — Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Dipr… · tree and pragmatics description: Gigantopithecus died out a few hundred thousand years ago when its forests changed and fruit grew scarce, and there is no good evidence it lives on as a Yeti or Bigfoot. Who acts: Gigantopithecus, forests, fruit, good evidence. 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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 (Gigantopithecus, forests, fruit, good evidence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.lesson:16 # text = Gigantopithecus died out a few hundred thousand years ago when its forests changed and fruit grew scarce, and there is no good evidence it lives on as a Yeti or Bigfoot. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Gigantopithecus Gigantopithecus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 7 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl:unmarked 9 ago ago ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 scarce scarce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 on on ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Yeti yeti NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 Bigfoot Bigfoot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die out** | past | Gigantopithecus | | | | | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **change** | past | size's forests | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow** | past | fruit | | | | | scarce *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **be** | present | no good evidence | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **live on** | present | evidence | no good evidence *not said here* | | | | as a Yeti or Bigfoot | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme evidence=Location | 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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