Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 15

Wild wolves are shy, and attacks on people are very rare; old stories like Little Red Riding Hood come from times when people feared wolves and lost livestock.

Who acts: Wild wolves, attacks, old stories, people · What happens: be, come, fear, lose · To what, where: wolves, livestock

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 (Wild wolves, attacks, old stories, people), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wolves	amod
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shy	cop
4	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rare	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rare	cc
7	attacks	attack	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rare	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 attacks	nmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 rare	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 rare	advmod
12	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shy	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stories	amod
15	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	nsubj
16	like	like	ADP	_	20 Hood	case
17	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Red	amod
18	Red	Red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Hood	amod
19	Riding	Riding	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Hood	compound
20	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 stories	nmod
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shy	parataxis
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 times	case
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obl
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 feared	advmod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 feared	nsubj
26	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	advcl
27	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 feared	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lost	cc
29	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 feared	conj
30	livestock	livestock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lost	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shy	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wild wolves			shy property	tree rules
2	is	present	attacks on people			rare property	tree rules
3	come	present	old stories like Red Riding Hood		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fear	past	people	wolves			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus
5	lose	past	people not said here	livestock			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent livestock=Eventuality

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:15.

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): 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.

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