The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 0

Scientists are trying new ways to look after life on Earth: freezing the cells of rare animals, building bridges for deer over roads, growing meat without farms, and even making elephants that look a little like mammoths.

Who acts: Scientists, elephants · What happens: try, look, freeze, build, grow, make · To what, where: new ways, cells, bridges, roads, meat, elephants

This is a sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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 (Scientists, elephants), 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	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ways	amod
5	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trying	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ways	acl
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 life	case
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 Earth	case
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 freezing	punct
13	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 ways	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cells	det
15	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 freezing	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 animals	case
17	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 animals	amod
18	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cells	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 building	punct
20	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 freezing	conj
21	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 building	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 deer	case
23	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 building	obl
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 roads	case
25	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 building	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 growing	punct
27	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 freezing	conj
28	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 growing	obj
29	without	without	ADP	_	30 farms	case
30	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 growing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 making	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 making	cc
33	even	even	ADV	_	34 making	advmod
34	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 freezing	conj
35	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 making	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 look	nsubj
37	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 elephants	acl:relcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 little	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 mammoths	advmod
40	like	like	ADP	_	41 mammoths	case
41	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 look	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trying	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	Scientists	new ways				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
2	look	to-infinitive	Scientists not said here	new ways not said here		after life	on Earth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on earth=Theme
3	freeze	gerund		the cells of rare animals				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient cell=Result
4	build	gerund		bridges	roads		for deer	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent bridge=Product for deer=Asset
5	grow	gerund		meat			without farms	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meat=Theme
6	make	gerund		elephants				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elephant=Product
7	look	present	elephants				like mammoths	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.lesson:0.

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): R6-punct-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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