Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 6
Jane Goodall spent her life protecting chimps and teaching children about nature, until she died in 2025.
Who acts: Jane · What happens: spend, protect, teach, die · To what, where: life, chimps, children
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), 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 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | Goodall | Goodall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jane | flat |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obj |
| 6 | protecting | protect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spent | advcl |
| 7 | chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 protecting | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 teaching | cc |
| 9 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 protecting | conj |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 teaching | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 nature | case |
| 12 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 teaching | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 died | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 died | nsubj |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 2025 | case |
| 18 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 died | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | Jane | Jane's life | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 2 | protect | gerund | Jane not said here | chimps | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimp=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | gerund | Jane not said here | children | about nature | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent child=Recipient about nature=Topic | |||
| 4 | die | past | Jane | in 2025 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2025=Attribute |
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:6.
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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