Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 6
In 1987 the last wild California condors were caught, leaving 27 in the world; lead from bullets in carcasses was poisoning them, and today there are over 500, more than half flying wild.
Who acts: lead, 500 · What happens: catch, leave, poison, be, fly · To what, where: last wild California condors, 1987, 27, world, animals, wild
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 (lead, 500), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1987 | case |
| 2 | 1987 | 1987 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 caught | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 condors | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 condors | amod |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 condors | amod |
| 6 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 condors | compound |
| 7 | condors | condor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | aux:pass |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaving | punct |
| 11 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 caught | advcl |
| 12 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 leaving | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaving | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
| 17 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 poisoning | nsubj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 bullets | case |
| 19 | bullets | bullet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lead | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 carcasses | case |
| 21 | carcasses | carcass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bullets | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 poisoning | aux |
| 23 | poisoning | poison | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 caught | parataxis |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 poisoning | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 are | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 are | cc |
| 27 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 are | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 are | expl |
| 29 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | conj |
| 30 | over | over | ADV | _ | 31 500 | advmod |
| 31 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 are | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 more | punct |
| 33 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 500 | conj |
| 34 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 36 flying | mark |
| 35 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 36 flying | det:predet |
| 36 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 more | acl |
| 37 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 flying | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | the last wild California condors | 1987 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | 27 | the world | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent 27=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 3 | poison | past · progressive | lead from bullets in carcasses | animals = animal | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | be | present | 500 | there | today | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | fly | gerund | wild | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wild=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:6.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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