Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 13

In South Africa in the 1980s many kudu antelopes died on crowded farms, and one explanation was that the acacias there had turned too bitter.

Who acts: many kudu antelopes, acacias · What happens: die, be, turn · To what, where: one explanation

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» 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 (many kudu antelopes, acacias), 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	_	3 Africa	case
2	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Africa	compound
3	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 died	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 1980s	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 1980s	det
6	1980s	1980s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	10 died	obl
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 antelopes	amod
8	kudu	kudu	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 antelopes	compound
9	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 farms	case
12	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 farms	amod
13	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 died	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 explanation	cc
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 explanation	nummod
17	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	conj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 explanation	cop
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 turned	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 acacias	det
21	acacias	acacia	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 turned	nsubj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 acacias	advmod
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 turned	aux
24	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 explanation	ccomp
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 bitter	advmod
26	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 turned	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	past	many kudu antelopes		in the 1980s; on crowded farms; in South Africa	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in africa=Attribute
2	is a	past	many kudu antelopes not said here	one explanation		tree rules
3	turn	past · perfect	the acacias		bitter property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones.lesson:13.

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. 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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