Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 14

White storks nested in England again in 2020 for the first time in hundreds of years, after birds were bred and released; in many countries storks on rooftops are a sign of good luck.

Who acts: White storks, storks · What happens: nest, breed, release, be · To what, where: England, birds, sign

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 (White storks, storks), 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	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 storks	amod
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nested	nsubj
3	nested	nest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 sign	parataxis
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 England	case
5	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 nested	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 nested	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 2020	case
8	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 nested	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nested	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 hundreds	case
14	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nested	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 years	case
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hundreds	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bred	punct
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	21 bred	mark
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bred	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bred	aux:pass
21	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nested	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 released	cc
23	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 bred	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 sign	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 storks	case
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 countries	amod
27	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sign	obl
28	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sign	nsubj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 rooftops	case
30	rooftops	rooftop	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 storks	nmod
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 sign	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 sign	det
33	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 luck	case
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 luck	amod
36	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sign	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 sign	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nest	participle	White storks		England	again; time	in 2020; in hundreds of years	vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	breed	past · passive		birds				tree rules
3	release	participle						vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	is a	present	storks on rooftops	a sign			of good luck; many countries obl	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:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.lesson:14.

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): R6-punct-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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