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title: The dodo had no enemies on its island, so it was not afraid of peopl… — The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the do… · tree and pragmatics
description: The dodo had no enemies on its island, so it was not afraid of people; sailors, and the rats, pigs and cats they brought, wiped it out, and the last dodos are thought to have died around 1680. Who acts: dodo, sailors. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, 
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# The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 7

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The dodo had no enemies on its island, so it was not afraid of people; sailors, and the rats, pigs and cats they brought, wiped it out, and the last dodos are thought to have died around 1680.

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**Who acts:** dodo, sailors · **What happens:** have, not be, bring, wipe out, think, die · **To what, where:** enemies, island, rats, Dodo, last dodos, 1680

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» 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 (dodo, sailors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:7
# text = The dodo had no enemies on its island, so it was not afraid of people; sailors, and the rats, pigs and cats they brought, wiped it out, and the last dodos are thought to have died around 1680.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dodo	dodo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	dodos	dodo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
41	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux	_	_
42	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:ccomp
43	around	around	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	1680	1680	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the dodo | no enemies |  | Dodo's island |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | Dodo |  |  |  |  | of people and pigs and cats; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | past | sailors *= sailor* | the rats *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rat=Theme |
| 4 | **wipe out** | past | sailors and the rats | Dodo |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the last dodos |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 6 | **die** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  | 1680 |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:7`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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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