Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 2
Rachel Carson wrote a book, Silent Spring, about how pesticides harmed birds, and it helped get DDT banned in America, which is where the bald eagle's comeback began.
Who acts: Rachel, pesticides, book, DDT, America, comeback · What happens: write, harm, help, get, ban, be · To what, where: book, birds, DDT, America
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 (Rachel, pesticides, book, DDT), 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 | Rachel | Rachel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | Carson | Carson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Rachel | flat |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Spring | punct |
| 7 | Silent | Silent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Spring | flat |
| 8 | Spring | Spring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 book | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pesticides | punct |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 harmed | case |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 harmed | advmod |
| 12 | pesticides | pesticide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 harmed | nsubj |
| 13 | harmed | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrote | parataxis |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 harmed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 helped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 helped | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 helped | nsubj |
| 18 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrote | conj |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 helped | xcomp |
| 20 | DDT | ddt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obj |
| 21 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 get | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 America | case |
| 23 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 banned | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 where | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 where | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 where | cop |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 America | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 eagle | det |
| 29 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 eagle | amod |
| 30 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 comeback | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 eagle | case |
| 32 | comeback | comeback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 began | nsubj |
| 33 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 where | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Rachel | a book | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 2 | harm | past | pesticides | birds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | help | past | book | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | book not said here | DDT | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ban | participle | DDT not said here | America | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 6 | is | present | America | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | begin | past | the bald eagle's comeback | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:2.
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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