Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 6

Peregrine falcons also crashed because of DDT; people bred and released them, even in cities, where tall buildings are like cliffs and pigeons are their food.

Who acts: Peregrine falcons, people, tall buildings · What happens: crash, breed, release, be · To what, where: cities, people, food

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 (Peregrine falcons, people, tall buildings), 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	Peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falcons	compound
2	falcons	falcon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crashed	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 crashed	advmod
4	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	7 DDT	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 because	fixed
7	DDT	ddt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crashed	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 bred	punct
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bred	nsubj
10	bred	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crashed	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 released	cc
12	released	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bred	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 released	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cities	punct
15	even	even	ADV	_	17 cities	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 cities	case
17	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bred	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 food	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 tall	advmod
20	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 buildings	amod
21	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 food	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 food	cop
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 cliffs	case
24	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 food	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pigeons	cc
26	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cliffs	conj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 food	cop
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 food	nmod:poss
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bred	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crashed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crash	past	Peregrine falcons			because DDT	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	breed	past	people		cities		tree rules
3	release	past	people not said here	people			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source
4	is a	present	tall buildings	cliffs's food			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:6.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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