Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 16

Island foxes on California's Channel Islands are about the size of a house cat; they were saved from near extinction partly by moving golden eagles away.

Who acts: Island foxes · What happens: be, save, move away · To what, where: size, foxes, near extinction, golden eagles

This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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 (Island foxes), 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	Island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 foxes	compound
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 size	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 Islands	case
4	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Islands	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 California	case
6	Channel	Channel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Islands	compound
7	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 foxes	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 size	cop
9	about	about	ADV	_	11 size	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 size	det
11	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 cat	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cat	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cat	compound
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 size	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 saved	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saved	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saved	aux:pass
19	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 size	parataxis
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 extinction	case
21	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 extinction	amod
22	extinction	extinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saved	obl
23	partly	partly	ADV	_	19 saved	advmod
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 moving	mark
25	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 saved	advcl
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eagles	amod
27	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 moving	obj
28	away	away	ADV	_	25 moving	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 size	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Island foxes on California's Channel Islands	the size		of a house cat; about property	tree rules
2	save	past · passive		foxes = fox	near extinction	partly property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from extinction=Source
3	move away	gerund		golden eagles		away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme eagle=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:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:16.

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): 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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