Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 12
Mountain gorillas fell to about 250 in the 1980s; rangers, local people and gorilla tourism helped them grow to over 1,000, and park rangers risk their lives to protect them.
Who acts: Mountain gorillas, rangers, gorillas, park rangers · What happens: fall, help, grow, risk, protect · To what, where: 1980s, gorillas, lives
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 (Mountain gorillas, rangers, gorillas, park rangers), 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 | Mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gorillas | compound |
| 2 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 250 | case |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 250 | advmod |
| 6 | 250 | 250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1980s | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 1980s | det |
| 9 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 fell | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 helped | punct |
| 11 | rangers | ranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 helped | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 13 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rangers | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tourism | cc |
| 16 | gorilla | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tourism | compound |
| 17 | tourism | tourism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rangers | conj |
| 18 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 helped | obj |
| 20 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 helped | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 1,000 | case |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 1,000 | advmod |
| 23 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 grow | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 risk | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 risk | cc |
| 26 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rangers | compound |
| 27 | rangers | ranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 risk | nsubj |
| 28 | risk | risk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 helped | conj |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 lives | nmod:poss |
| 30 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 risk | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 protect | mark |
| 32 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 risk | advcl |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 protect | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | 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 | fall | past | Mountain gorillas | the 1980s | to 250 | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1980s=Location | |||
| 2 | help | past | rangers and local people and gorilla tourism | gorillas = gorilla | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | gorillas = gorilla not said here | to 1,000 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | risk | present | park rangers | rangers's lives | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | protect | to-infinitive | park rangers not said here | gorillas = gorilla | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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:12.
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): R2-punct-next ×2, 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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