Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 10
In 1987 only 27 California condors were left and all were taken into care; zoo breeding and release raised the number to over 500, but lead from hunters' bullets in dead animals still poisons them.
Who acts: zoo breeding, lead · What happens: leave, take, raise, poison · To what, where: 27 California condors, 1987, all, care, number, 500
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 (zoo breeding, lead), 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 | _ | 2 1987 | case |
| 2 | 1987 | 1987 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 left | obl |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 27 | advmod |
| 4 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 condors | nummod |
| 5 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 condors | compound |
| 6 | condors | condor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 left | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux:pass |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 taken | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 left | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 care | case |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 breeding | punct |
| 16 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 breeding | compound |
| 17 | breeding | breeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 raised | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 release | cc |
| 19 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 breeding | conj |
| 20 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 number | det |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 raised | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 500 | case |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 25 500 | advmod |
| 25 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 raised | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 poisons | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 lead | cc |
| 28 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 poisons | nsubj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 bullets | case |
| 30 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bullets | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 30 hunters | case |
| 32 | bullets | bullet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lead | nmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 animals | case |
| 34 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 animals | amod |
| 35 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bullets | nmod |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 37 poisons | advmod |
| 37 | poisons | poison | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 raised | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 poisons | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | 27 California condors | 1987 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in 1987=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | all | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into care=Destination | ||||
| 3 | raise | past | zoo breeding and release | the number | 500 | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent number=Theme to 500=Destination | |||
| 4 | poison | present | lead from hunters's bullets in dead animals | numbers = number | still | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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:10.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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