Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 0

Every comeback story has people behind it: scientists who watched animals for years, writers who warned the world, and rangers who guard animals day and night.

Who acts: comeback story, scientists, writers, rangers · What happens: have, watch, warn, guard · To what, where: people, it, animals, world

This is a sentence of the lesson «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» 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 (comeback story, scientists, writers, rangers), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 story	det
2	comeback	comeback	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 story	compound
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 people	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 scientists	punct
9	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 people	appos
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 watched	nsubj
11	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scientists	acl:relcl
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 watched	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 watched	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 writers	punct
16	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scientists	conj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 warned	nsubj
18	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 writers	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 warned	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rangers	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rangers	cc
23	rangers	ranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scientists	conj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 guard	nsubj
25	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 rangers	acl:relcl
26	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 guard	obj
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 guard	obl:unmarked
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 night	cc
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 day	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	every comeback story	people		it		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	watch	past	scientists and writers and rangers	animals			year	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
3	warn speech: warn	past	writers	the world				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent world=Recipient
4	guard	present	rangers		animals		day	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary

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:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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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