The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 15

Goats brought by people ate the plants tortoises needed; when people removed goats from many islands, plants and tortoises began to come back.

Who acts: Goats, people, plants · What happens: bring, eat, need, remove, begin, come back · To what, where: Goats, plants tortoises, many islands

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» 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 (Goats, people, 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	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Goats	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	obl:agent
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plants	det
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tortoises	compound
8	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj
9	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tortoises	acl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 removed	mark
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 removed	nsubj
13	removed	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 began	advcl
14	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 removed	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 islands	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 islands	amod
17	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 removed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 plants	punct
19	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 began	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tortoises	cc
21	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 plants	conj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ate	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 come	mark
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bring	participle		Goats not said here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	Goats	plants tortoises		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Patient
3	need	participle		plants tortoises not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	remove	past	people	goats	many islands	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent goat=Theme from island=Source
5	begin	past	plants and tortoises			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	come back	to-infinitive	plants and tortoises not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «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:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson:15.

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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