Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 17

Tiny Partula snails on Pacific islands such as Tahiti were wiped out by a predatory snail that people brought in to eat another pest snail; zoos bred them and have returned thousands.

Who acts: predatory snail, people, zoos · What happens: wipe out, bring in, eat, breed, return · To what, where: Tiny Partula snails, predatory snail, pest snail, snails, thousands

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 (predatory snail, people, zoos), 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	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snails	amod
2	Partula	Partula	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 snails	compound
3	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wiped	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 islands	case
5	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 islands	compound
6	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 snails	nmod
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	9 Tahiti	case
8	as	as	ADP	_	7 such	fixed
9	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 islands	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wiped	aux:pass
11	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 wiped	compound:prt
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 snail	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 snail	det
15	predatory	predatory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 snail	amod
16	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wiped	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 brought	obj
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 brought	nsubj
19	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 snail	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 brought	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 brought	advcl
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 snail	det
24	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 snail	compound
25	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 bred	punct
27	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bred	nsubj
28	bred	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wiped	parataxis
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bred	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 returned	cc
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 returned	aux
32	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 bred	conj
33	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 returned	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 wiped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wipe out	past · passive	a predatory snail	Tiny Partula snails on Pacific islands such Tahiti	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Source
2	bring in	past	people	a predatory snail	vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Asset
3	eat	to-infinitive	people not said here	another pest snail	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snail=Patient
4	breed	past	zoos	snails = snail	tree rules
5	return	present · perfect	zoos not said here	thousands	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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:17.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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