Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 6

Wolves helped willows and aspens in some places, which helped beavers and birds; scientists say the story is more complicated than «wolves changed the rivers», because bears, people and weather also mattered.

Who acts: Wolves, places, scientists, story, bears · What happens: help, say, be, change, matter · To what, where: willows, places, beavers, rivers · 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 (Wolves, places, 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	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 helped	nsubj
2	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 helped	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 aspens	cc
5	aspens	aspen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 willows	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 places	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 places	det
8	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 helped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 helped	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 helped	nsubj
11	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 places	acl:relcl
12	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 helped	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 birds	cc
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 beavers	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
16	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 helped	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 complicated	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 complicated	cop
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 complicated	advmod
22	complicated	complicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 say	ccomp
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 changed	mark
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 changed	punct
25	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 changed	nsubj
26	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 complicated	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rivers	det
28	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 changed	obj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 changed	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 changed	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	38 mattered	mark
32	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 mattered	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 people	punct
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 bears	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 weather	cc
36	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bears	conj
37	also	also	ADV	_	38 mattered	advmod
38	mattered	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 changed	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 helped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	past	Wolves	willows and aspens		some places		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent willow=Beneficiary
2	help	past	some places		beavers and birds			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Beneficiary
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	change in a quote	past	wolves	the rivers				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
6	matter	past	bears and people and weather					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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