--- title: Cartoons draw the dodo as a fat, stupid bird that deserved to vanish… — Endangered animals and extinction · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons draw the dodo as a fat, stupid bird that deserved to vanish; in truth it was well suited to its island, and it died out because sailors' rats, pigs and monkeys ate its eggs. Who acts: Cartoons, fat stupid bird, dodo, rats. 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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 (Cartoons, fat stupid bird, dodo, rats), 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:3 # text = Cartoons draw the dodo as a fat, stupid bird that deserved to vanish; in truth it was well suited to its island, and it died out because sailors' rats, pigs and monkeys ate its eggs. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 draw draw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dodo dodo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 7 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 deserved deserve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 20 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 21 suited suit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 31 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 ' 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=35:conj 38 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | present | Cartoons | the dodo | | | | a fat stupid bird *obl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dodo=Theme | | 2 | **deserve** | past | a fat stupid bird | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **vanish** | to-infinitive | a fat stupid bird *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **suit** | past · passive | | dodo | | truth | | to dodo's island; well *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **die out** | past | dodo | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **eat** | past | sailors's rats and pigs and monkeys | dodo's eggs | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | 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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