Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 13

Red kites were wiped out in England by the late 1800s; birds from Spain were released from 1989, and now there are thousands; they eat mostly dead animals and are no danger to people.

Who acts: late 1800s, thousands · What happens: wipe out, release, be, eat · To what, where: Red kites, England, birds, 1989, dead animals, danger

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 (late 1800s, thousands), 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	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kites	amod
2	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wiped	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wiped	aux:pass
4	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 wiped	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 England	case
7	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wiped	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 1800s	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 1800s	det
10	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 1800s	amod
11	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	4 wiped	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 released	punct
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 released	nsubj:pass
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 Spain	case
15	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 birds	nmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 released	aux:pass
17	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wiped	parataxis
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 1989	case
19	1989	1989	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 released	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 are	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 are	cc
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 are	advmod
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 are	expl
24	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 released	conj
25	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 are	nsubj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 eat	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
28	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wiped	parataxis
29	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	30 dead	advmod
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 animals	amod
31	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eat	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 danger	cc
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 danger	cop
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 danger	det
35	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 people	case
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 danger	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wiped	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe out	past · passive	the late 1800s	Red kites	England			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in england=Trajectory
2	release	past · passive		birds from Spain	1989			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
3	does	present	thousands		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	present	thousands = thousand	dead animals				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
5	is a	present	thousands = thousand not said here	no danger			to people	tree rules

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: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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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