Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 8
Dian Fossey studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda and fought against poachers who trapped them; her work helped start the protection that saved them.
Who acts: Dian, poachers, work, protection · What happens: study, fight, trap, help, start, save · To what, where: mountain gorillas, Rwanda, gorillas, protection
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 (Dian, poachers, work, protection), 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 | Dian | Dian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 studied | nsubj |
| 2 | Fossey | Fossey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dian | flat |
| 3 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gorillas | compound |
| 5 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 studied | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Rwanda | case |
| 7 | Rwanda | Rwanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gorillas | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fought | cc |
| 9 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 studied | conj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 poachers | case |
| 11 | poachers | poacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fought | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 trapped | nsubj |
| 13 | trapped | trap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 poachers | acl:relcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trapped | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 helped | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 work | nmod:poss |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 helped | nsubj |
| 18 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 studied | parataxis |
| 19 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 helped | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 protection | det |
| 21 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 start | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 saved | nsubj |
| 23 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 protection | acl:relcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saved | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 studied | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | study | past | Dian | mountain gorillas | Rwanda | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gorilla=Topic | |||
| 2 | fight | past | Dian not said here | against poachers | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | trap | past | poachers | gorillas = gorilla | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | help | past | Dian's work | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | start | infinitive | Dian's work not said here | the protection | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protection=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | save | past | the protection | gorillas = gorilla | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | work | Dian | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:8.
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): 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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