Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 2
The Arabian oryx, the European bison, Przewalski's horse, the California condor and the scimitar-horned oryx all came back this way, and tiny Partula snails went back to their islands in their thousands.
Who acts: Arabian oryx, tiny Partula snails · What happens: horn, come back, go back · To what, where: way, 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 (Arabian oryx, tiny Partula snails), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 oryx | det |
| 2 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 oryx | amod |
| 3 | oryx | oryx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bison | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bison | det |
| 6 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bison | amod |
| 7 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 oryx | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 horse | punct |
| 9 | Przewalski | Przewalski | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Przewalski | case |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 oryx | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 condor | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 condor | det |
| 14 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 condor | compound |
| 15 | condor | condor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 oryx | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 oryx | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 oryx | det |
| 18 | scimitar | scimitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 horned | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 scimitar | punct |
| 20 | horned | horn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 oryx | amod |
| 21 | oryx | oryx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 oryx | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 came | advmod |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 29 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 snails | amod |
| 30 | Partula | Partula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 snails | compound |
| 31 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 came | conj |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 islands | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 islands | nmod:poss |
| 36 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 went | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 thousands | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 thousands | nmod:poss |
| 39 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 went | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horn | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come back | past | the Arabian oryx and the European bison and Przewalski's horse and the California condor and the horned oryx | this way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | tiny Partula snails | oryx's thousands | to oryx's islands result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result |
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:2.
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, R3-conj-first ×3. 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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