Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 15
Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain about 400 years ago for their fur and are now being brought back to some rivers.
What happens: hunt, bring back · To what, where: Beavers, Britain
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» 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: 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 | Beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hunted | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunted | aux:pass |
| 3 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 extinction | case |
| 5 | extinction | extinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunted | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Britain | case |
| 7 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hunted | obl |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 400 | advmod |
| 9 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 hunted | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 fur | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fur | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunted | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux:pass |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | _ | 19 brought | advmod |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 brought | aux:pass |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hunted | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 brought | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 rivers | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 rivers | det |
| 23 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 back | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · passive | Beavers | Britain | to extinction; for hundreds's fur; ago property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for fur=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring back | present · passive | now | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» |
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:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.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): no change. 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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