Rivers, lakes and ponds, sentence 15

Great crested newts live on land for much of the year, wrap each egg in a folded leaf in a pond in spring, are protected by law in the UK and do best in ponds without fish, because fish eat their eggs and young.

Who acts: Great crested newts, law, fish · What happens: live, wrap, fold, protect, do, eat · To what, where: land, egg, folded leaf, UK, ponds, eggs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and ponds» 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 (Great crested newts, law, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 newts	amod
2	crested	crest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 newts	amod
3	newts	newt	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 land	case
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 much	case
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 live	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 year	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 much	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wrap	punct
13	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 live	conj
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 egg	det
15	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrap	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 leaf	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 leaf	det
18	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 leaf	amod
19	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrap	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 pond	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pond	det
22	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrap	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 spring	case
24	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pond	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 protected	punct
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 protected	aux:pass
27	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 live	conj
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 law	case
29	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 protected	obl:agent
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 UK	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 UK	det
32	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 protected	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 do	cc
34	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 protected	conj
35	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 do	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 ponds	case
37	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 do	obl
38	without	without	ADP	_	39 fish	case
39	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ponds	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 eat	punct
41	because	because	SCONJ	_	43 eat	mark
42	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 eat	nsubj
43	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 do	advcl
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 eggs	nmod:poss
45	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 eat	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 young	cc
47	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 eggs	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 live	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Great crested newts		land	for much of the year	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location
2	wrap	present	Great crested newts not said here	each egg	a folded leaf	in a pond in spring	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in leaf=Destination
3	fold	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	protect	present · passive	law		the UK		vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	do	present	law not said here		ponds without fish	well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	eat	present	fish	fish'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, 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:010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.lesson:15.

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, R6-punct-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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