Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 1

In 1995 and 1996, 31 wolves were brought back from Canada; the elk had to keep moving again, and in some places young trees could grow, which helped beavers and birds.

Who acts: elk, young trees · What happens: bring back, have, keep, move, grow, help · To what, where: 31 wolves, 1995, places, beavers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» 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 (elk, young trees), 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 1995	case
2	1995	1995	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 brought	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 1996	cc
4	1996	1996	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 1995	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1995	punct
6	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 wolves	nummod
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brought	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brought	aux:pass
9	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 brought	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Canada	case
12	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 brought	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 elk	det
15	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brought	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 keep	xcomp
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 moving	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grow	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grow	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 places	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 places	det
25	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 grow	obl
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 trees	amod
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 grow	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 grow	aux
29	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 helped	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 helped	nsubj
32	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 grow	conj
33	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 helped	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 birds	cc
35	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 beavers	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 brought	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	bring back	past · passive		31 wolves		1995		from Canada	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from canada=Initial_Location
2	have	past	the elk						tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	the elk not said here						tree rules
4	move	gerund	the elk not said here				again		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	grow	could	young trees			some places			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
6	help	past			beavers and birds				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=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:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.lesson:1.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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