Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 11
Beaver dams slow floods, clean water and make ponds full of life, though some farmers worry about flooded fields.
Who acts: Beaver dams, farmers · What happens: slow, clean, make, worry, flood · To what, where: floods, water, ponds
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 (Beaver dams, farmers), 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 | Beaver | beaver | NOUN | _ | 2 dams | compound |
| 2 | dams | dam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slow | nsubj |
| 3 | slow | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slow | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 slow | punct |
| 6 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 slow | conj |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clean | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 make | cc |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slow | conj |
| 10 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 worry | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 worry | mark |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 farmers | det |
| 17 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 worry | nsubj |
| 18 | worry | worry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slow | advcl |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 fields | case |
| 20 | flooded | flood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fields | amod |
| 21 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 worry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow | present | Beaver dams | floods | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flood=Patient | ||||
| 2 | clean | infinitive | Beaver dams not said here | water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | present | Beaver dams not said here | ponds | full property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pond=Product | |||
| 4 | worry | present | some farmers | about flooded fields | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about field=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | flood | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:11.
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, 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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