Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 7

Steve Irwin was an Australian zoo keeper and TV presenter who loved reptiles; he died in 2006 in an extremely rare stingray accident, and his family still runs Australia Zoo and saves wildlife.

Who acts: Steve, Australian zoo keeper, family · What happens: be, love, die, run, save · To what, where: Australian zoo keeper, reptiles, Australia Zoo, wildlife

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 (Steve, Australian zoo keeper, family), 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	Steve	Steve	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keeper	nsubj
2	Irwin	Irwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Steve	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keeper	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 keeper	det
5	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keeper	amod
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeper	compound
7	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 presenter	cc
9	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 presenter	compound
10	presenter	presenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeper	conj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 loved	nsubj
12	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keeper	acl:relcl
13	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 loved	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 died	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 died	nsubj
16	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keeper	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 2006	case
18	2006	2006	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 died	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	24 accident	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 accident	det
21	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	22 rare	advmod
22	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 accident	amod
23	stingray	stingray	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 accident	compound
24	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 died	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 runs	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 runs	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 family	nmod:poss
28	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 runs	nsubj
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 runs	advmod
30	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 keeper	conj
31	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Zoo	compound
32	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 runs	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 saves	cc
34	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 runs	conj
35	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 saves	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 keeper	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Steve	a Australian zoo keeper and TV presenter			tree rules
2	love	past	a Australian zoo keeper and TV presenter	reptiles			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reptile=Stimulus
3	die	past	Steve			in a rare stingray accident; in 2006	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2006=Attribute
4	run	present	Steve's family	Australia Zoo	still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zoo=Agent
5	save	present	Steve's family not said here	wildlife			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wildlife=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:7.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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