Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 8
In 2016 giant pandas moved from endangered, in great danger of dying out, to vulnerable, still at risk but less so; China protected bamboo forests and made corridors between them, and there are now about 1,800 or more in the wild.
Who acts: giant pandas, great danger, China, 1,800 · What happens: move, die out, protect, make, be · To what, where: 2016, bamboo forests, corridors, wild
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 (giant pandas, great danger, China, 1,800), 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 2016 | case |
| 2 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 moved | obl |
| 3 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pandas | amod |
| 4 | pandas | panda | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 endangered | case |
| 7 | endangered | endangered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moved | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 danger | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 danger | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 danger | amod |
| 11 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 dying | mark |
| 13 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 danger | acl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 dying | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vulnerable | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 vulnerable | case |
| 17 | vulnerable | vulnerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 endangered | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 risk | punct |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 risk | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 risk | case |
| 21 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vulnerable | obl |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 so | cc |
| 23 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 so | advmod |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 vulnerable | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 forests | punct |
| 26 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 protected | nsubj |
| 27 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | conj |
| 28 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 forests | compound |
| 29 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 protected | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 made | cc |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 protected | conj |
| 32 | corridors | corridor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 made | obj |
| 33 | between | between | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 corridors | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 are | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 are | cc |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 are | expl |
| 38 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 protected | conj |
| 39 | now | now | ADV | _ | 38 are | advmod |
| 40 | about | about | ADV | _ | 41 1,800 | advmod |
| 41 | 1,800 | 1,800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 are | nsubj |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 more | cc |
| 43 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 41 1,800 | conj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 wild | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 wild | det |
| 46 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 are | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | 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 | move | past | giant pandas | 2016 | from endangered; in great danger | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in 2016=Source from endangered=Trajectory in danger=Destination | |||
| 2 | die out | gerund | great danger not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | protect | past | China | bamboo forests | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | make | past | China not said here | corridors | between forests = forest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corridor=Product | |||
| 5 | be | present | 1,800 | the wild; there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location |
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:8.
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 ×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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo/8/