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title: Excessive exploitation for its red feathers is the most likely reaso… — Cook Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: Excessive exploitation for its red feathers is the most likely reason for the species' extinction in the Cook Islands. Who acts: Excessive exploitation, species. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cook Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cook Islands, sentence 82

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From Wikipedia, [«Cook Islands»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Islands), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Excessive exploitation for its red feathers is the most likely reason for the species' extinction in the Cook Islands.

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**Who acts:** Excessive exploitation, species · **What happens:** be, extinguish · **To what, where:** likely reason, Cook Islands

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cook Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Excessive exploitation, species), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Cook_Islands:82
# text = Excessive exploitation for its red feathers is the most likely reason for the species' extinction in the Cook Islands.
1	Excessive	excessive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	exploitation	exploitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	extinction	extinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Excessive exploitation for exploitation's red feathers | the likely reason |  | the Cook Islands |  | for the species's extinction | tree rules |
| 2 | **extinguish** |  | the species |  |  |  |  |  | nom extinction «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Cook Islands», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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