Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 12

Some people think the oryx, seen from the side with its two horns in line, may have helped give rise to the unicorn legend, but no one can be sure.

Who acts: people, oryx, one · What happens: think, see, help, give, be · To what, where: oryx, side, rise, unicorn legend · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, oryx, one), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oryx	det
5	oryx	oryx	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 helped	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seen	punct
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 oryx	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 side	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 horns	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 horns	nmod:poss
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 horns	nummod
14	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seen	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 line	case
16	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horns	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 oryx	punct
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 helped	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 helped	aux
20	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 think	ccomp
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 helped	xcomp
22	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 legend	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 legend	det
25	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 legend	compound
26	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sure	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 sure	cc
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sure	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sure	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 sure	cop
33	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	some people					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see	participle		the oryx not said here		the side	with side's two horns in line	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	help	may · perfect	the oryx					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	give	infinitive	the oryx not said here	rise	the unicorn legend			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to legend=Recipient
5	is	can	no one				sure property	tree rules

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:12.

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 ×2. 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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