Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 15
Citizen scientists are ordinary people who count birds, butterflies and frogs and send the numbers to scientists; the Big Garden Birdwatch in Britain has hundreds of thousands of counters, and the numbers show which animals are rising or falling.
Who acts: Citizen scientists, ordinary people, Big Garden, numbers, animals · What happens: be, count, send, have, show, rise · To what, where: ordinary people, birds, numbers, scientists, hundreds · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Citizen scientists, ordinary people, Big Garden, numbers), 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 | Citizen | citizen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scientists | compound |
| 2 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 people | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | cop |
| 4 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 count | nsubj |
| 7 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 count | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 butterflies | punct |
| 10 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 birds | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 frogs | cc |
| 12 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 birds | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 send | cc |
| 14 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 count | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 numbers | det |
| 16 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 send | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 scientists | case |
| 18 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 send | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 Garden | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Garden | det |
| 21 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Garden | flat |
| 22 | Garden | Garden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 has | nsubj |
| 23 | Birdwatch | birdwatch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Garden | flat |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Britain | case |
| 25 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Birdwatch | nmod |
| 26 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | parataxis |
| 27 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 has | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 thousands | case |
| 29 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hundreds | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 counters | case |
| 31 | counters | counter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 thousands | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 show | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 show | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 numbers | det |
| 35 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 show | nsubj |
| 36 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 has | conj |
| 37 | which | which | DET | PronType=Rel | 38 animals | det |
| 38 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 rising | nsubj |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 rising | aux |
| 40 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 show | ccomp |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 falling | cc |
| 42 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 rising | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | 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 | is a | present | Citizen scientists | ordinary people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | count | present | ordinary people | birds and butterflies and frogs | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | present | ordinary people not said here | the numbers | scientists | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent number=Theme to scientist=Destination | |||
| 4 | have | present | the Big Garden | hundreds of thousands of counters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient | ||||
| 5 | show | present | the numbers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | rise | present · progressive | which animals | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | fall | gerund | which animals not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:15.
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 ×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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