Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 0
Not every story ends in extinction: when people stop the harm and protect a kind of animal, it can come back, sometimes from just a few dozen.
Who acts: story, people · What happens: not end, stop, protect, come back · To what, where: extinction, harm, kind, few dozen
This is a sentence of the lesson «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» 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 (story, people), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ends | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ends | nsubj |
| 4 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 extinction | case |
| 6 | extinction | extinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ends | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 stop | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 stop | advmod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stop | nsubj |
| 10 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 harm | det |
| 12 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stop | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 protect | cc |
| 14 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stop | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 kind | det |
| 16 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 protect | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 animal | case |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kind | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ends | parataxis |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dozen | punct |
| 25 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 dozen | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 dozen | case |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 30 dozen | advmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dozen | det |
| 29 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dozen | amod |
| 30 | dozen | dozen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ends | 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 | not end | present | every story | extinction | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | people | the harm | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector harm=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | protect | present | people not said here | a kind of animal | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | come back | can | story | a few dozen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dozen=Initial_Location |
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:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:0.
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, R8-pos-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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