Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 13
Gerald Durrell founded Jersey Zoo to breed endangered animals, wrote funny books about his animal-filled childhood in Greece, and helped save animals like the pink pigeon of Mauritius.
Who acts: Gerald · What happens: found, breed, write, fill, help, save · To what, where: Jersey Zoo, endangered animals, funny books, animals
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 (Gerald), 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 | Gerald | Gerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | nsubj |
| 2 | Durrell | Durrell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gerald | flat |
| 3 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Jersey | Jersey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Zoo | compound |
| 5 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 breed | mark |
| 7 | breed | breed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 founded | advcl |
| 8 | endangered | endanger | ADJ | _ | 9 animals | amod |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 breed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrote | punct |
| 11 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 founded | conj |
| 12 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 books | amod |
| 13 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wrote | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 childhood | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 16 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 filled | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 animal | punct |
| 18 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 childhood | amod |
| 19 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 books | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Greece | case |
| 21 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 childhood | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 helped | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 helped | cc |
| 24 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 founded | conj |
| 25 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 helped | xcomp |
| 26 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 save | obj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 pigeon | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pigeon | det |
| 29 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pigeon | amod |
| 30 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 animals | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Mauritius | case |
| 32 | Mauritius | Mauritius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 pigeon | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past | Gerald | Jersey Zoo | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zoo=Patient | ||||
| 2 | breed | to-infinitive | Gerald not said here | endangered animals | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | write | past | Gerald not said here | funny books | about Gerald's filled childhood in Greece | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent book=Recipient about childhood=Topic | |||
| 4 | fill | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | help | past | Gerald not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | save | infinitive | Gerald not said here | animals | like the pink pigeon of Mauritius | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
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:13.
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, 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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