Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 16

Beaver ponds slow floods, clean water and keep streams flowing in dry seasons; in America green strips were seen along beaver streams during droughts and wildfires while the land around them burned.

Who acts: Beaver ponds, streams, land · What happens: slow, clean, keep, flow, see, burn · To what, where: floods, water, streams, green strips

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: who acts (Beaver ponds, streams, land), 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	Beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ponds	compound
2	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slow	nsubj
3	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slow	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 water	punct
6	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slow	conj
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clean	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keep	cc
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slow	conj
10	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	obj
11	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keep	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 seasons	case
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seasons	amod
14	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flowing	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 strips	case
17	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 seen	obl
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 strips	amod
19	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 seen	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux:pass
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 slow	parataxis
22	along	along	ADP	_	24 streams	case
23	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 streams	compound
24	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 seen	obl
25	during	during	ADP	_	26 droughts	case
26	droughts	drought	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 seen	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wildfires	cc
28	wildfires	wildfire	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 droughts	conj
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 burned	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 land	det
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 burned	nsubj
32	around	around	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 land	nmod
34	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slow	present	Beaver ponds	floods			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flood=Patient
2	clean	present	Beaver ponds not said here	water			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	keep	present	Beaver ponds not said here	streams			tree rules
4	flow	gerund	streams not said here		season		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	past · passive		green strips	during droughts and wildfires	along beaver streams; America obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	burn	past	the land around strips				vn light_emission-43.1 «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:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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