Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 10

Big grazers like bison eat, trample and rub against young trees, opening sunny clearings in a forest where other plants and animals can live.

Who acts: Big grazers, other plants · What happens: eat, trample, rub, open, live · To what, where: young trees, sunny clearings, forest

This is a sentence of the lesson «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» 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 (Big grazers, other plants), 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	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grazers	amod
2	grazers	grazer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 bison	case
4	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grazers	nmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trample	punct
7	trample	trample	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rub	cc
9	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	conj
10	against	against	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trees	amod
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rub	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 opening	punct
14	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 eat	advcl
15	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clearings	amod
16	clearings	clearing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 opening	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 forest	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 forest	det
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clearings	nmod
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 live	advmod
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 plants	amod
22	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 live	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 animals	cc
24	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 plants	conj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 live	aux
26	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 forest	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat	present	Big grazers like bison			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	trample	present	Big grazers like bison not said here			tree rules
3	rub	present	Big grazers like bison not said here		young trees	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against tree=Destination
4	open	gerund	Big grazers like bison not said here	sunny clearings	a forest	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent clearing=Theme in forest=Location
5	live	can	other plants and animals			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:114-back-to-the-wild.lesson:10.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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