Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 3

The famous video says the wolves «changed the rivers», but scientists say the story is more complicated, because bears, people and weather mattered too; still, the main lesson holds: top predators shape the whole web.

Who acts: famous video, wolves, scientists, story, bears, main lesson · What happens: say, change, be, matter, hold, shape · To what, where: rivers, whole web · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (famous video, wolves, scientists, story), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 video	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 video	amod
3	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolves	det
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 changed	nsubj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 changed	punct
8	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rivers	det
10	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 changed	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 changed	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 say	cc
14	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 story	det
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 complicated	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 complicated	cop
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 complicated	advmod
20	complicated	complicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 say	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bears	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 mattered	mark
23	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mattered	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 people	punct
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bears	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 weather	cc
27	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bears	conj
28	mattered	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 complicated	advcl
29	too	too	ADV	_	28 mattered	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 holds	punct
31	still	still	ADV	_	36 holds	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 still	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 lesson	det
34	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lesson	amod
35	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 holds	nsubj
36	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	parataxis
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 shape	punct
38	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 predators	amod
39	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 shape	nsubj
40	shape	shape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 holds	ccomp
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 web	det
42	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 web	amod
43	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shape	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the famous video				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	change in a quote	past	the wolves	the rivers			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
3	say speech: assert	present	scientists				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the story			complicated property	tree rules
5	matter	past	bears and people and weather				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
6	hold	present	the main lesson		still		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	shape	present	top predators	the whole web			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset web=Product

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:3.

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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