Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 10
Beavers were hunted out of Britain about 400 years ago and have been returning; official releases into the wild in England were reported from 2025.
What happens: hunt out, return, report · To what, where: Beavers, Britain, official releases, 2025
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: 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 | Beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hunted | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunted | aux:pass |
| 3 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 Britain | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Britain | case |
| 6 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hunted | obl |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 400 | advmod |
| 8 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 hunted | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 returning | cc |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 returning | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 returning | aux |
| 14 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hunted | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 releases | punct |
| 16 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 releases | amod |
| 17 | releases | release | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 wild | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wild | det |
| 20 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 releases | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 England | case |
| 22 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 releases | nmod |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 reported | aux:pass |
| 24 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 returning | parataxis |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 2025 | case |
| 26 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 reported | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt out | past · passive | Beavers | Britain | ago property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return | present · perfect · progressive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | report | past · passive | official releases into the wild in England | 2025 | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:10.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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