Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 4
David Attenborough has made nature films for over 70 years, showing millions of people the wonders of nature and the dangers to it; Blue Planet II made many people think about plastic in the sea.
Who acts: David, Blue Planet, many people · What happens: make, show, think, wonder · To what, where: nature films, millions, nature
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 (David, Blue Planet, many people), 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 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 2 | Attenborough | Attenborough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 David | flat |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 films | compound |
| 6 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 70 | advmod |
| 9 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 showing | punct |
| 12 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 made | advcl |
| 13 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 showing | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 millions | nmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wonders | det |
| 17 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 showing | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 nature | case |
| 19 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wonders | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dangers | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dangers | det |
| 22 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wonders | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dangers | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 26 | Blue | Blue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Planet | compound |
| 27 | Planet | Planet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 made | nsubj |
| 28 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 27 Planet | flat |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 people | amod |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 think | nsubj |
| 32 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 made | xcomp |
| 33 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 plastic | case |
| 34 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 think | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 sea | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sea | det |
| 37 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 plastic | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect | David | nature films | year | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Product | |||
| 2 | show | gerund | David not said here | millions of people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent million=Recipient wonder=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Blue Planet | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | infinitive | many people | about plastic in the sea | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about plastic=Topic | ||||
| 5 | wonder | nature | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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.
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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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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