Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 1
Jane Goodall sat quietly in a Tanzanian forest from 1960 until the chimpanzees trusted her, and she saw something nobody believed: a chimp stripping leaves from a twig to fish termites out of a mound, so chimps make tools.
Who acts: Jane, chimpanzees, nobody, chimp, chimps · What happens: sit, trust, see, believe, strip, make · To what, where: Tanzanian forest, Jane, something, leaves, twig, tools
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 (Jane, chimpanzees, nobody, chimp), 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 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | Goodall | Goodall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jane | flat |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 7 | Tanzanian | Tanzanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forest | amod |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 1960 | case |
| 10 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 sat | obl |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 trusted | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chimpanzees | det |
| 13 | chimpanzees | chimpanzee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 trusted | nsubj |
| 14 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 trusted | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 believed | nsubj |
| 22 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 something | acl:relcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 stripping | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 chimp | det |
| 25 | chimp | chimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stripping | nsubj |
| 26 | stripping | strip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 saw | parataxis |
| 27 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stripping | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 twig | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 twig | det |
| 30 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stripping | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 termites | case |
| 32 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 termites | compound |
| 33 | termites | termite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stripping | obl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 mound | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 mound | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 mound | det |
| 37 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 termites | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 make | punct |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 make | advmod |
| 40 | chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 make | nsubj |
| 41 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 stripping | conj |
| 42 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 make | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Jane | a Tanzanian forest | from 1960; quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | |||
| 2 | trust | past | the chimpanzees | Jane | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Jane | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | believe | past | nobody | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | strip | gerund | a chimp | leaves | a twig | to fish termites out a mound | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme from twig=Source | ||
| 6 | make | present | chimps | tools | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tool=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:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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