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title: Extinct means gone for ever: when the last animal of a kind dies, no… — Endangered animals and extinction · tree and pragmatics
description: Extinct means gone for ever: when the last animal of a kind dies, no zoo, scientist or wish can bring that kind back. Who acts: last animal, Extinct means. A sentence of the lesson «Endangered animals and extinction» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Endangered animals and extinction, sentence 0

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Extinct means gone for ever: when the last animal of a kind dies, no zoo, scientist or wish can bring that kind back.

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**Who acts:** last animal, Extinct means · **What happens:** go, die, bring back · **To what, where:** Extinct means, kind

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Endangered animals and extinction» 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 (last animal, Extinct means), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:077-endangered-animals-and-extinction.lesson:0
# text = Extinct means gone for ever: when the last animal of a kind dies, no zoo, scientist or wish can bring that kind back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 077-endangered-animals-and-extinction.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
1	Extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	means	means	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	23	nsubj	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **go** | participle |  | Extinct means *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ever=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **die** | present | the last animal of a kind |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **bring back** | can | Extinct means | that kind |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |

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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:077-endangered-animals-and-extinction.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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