Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 3
These stories show that saving a species is hard and slow, but it really works.
Who acts: stories, saving, story · What happens: show, save, be, work · To what, where: species · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stories, saving, story), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 saving | mark |
| 5 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger | 9 hard | csubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 species | det |
| 7 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saving | obj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | cop |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 show | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slow | cc |
| 11 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hard | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 works | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 works | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 works | nsubj |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 works | advmod |
| 16 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | this stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | save | gerund | a species | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | saving | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | saving not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | work | present | story | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:3.
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): no change. 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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