The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 8

As places warm, many plants and animals move towards the poles or up mountains, and some cannot move fast enough or have nowhere higher to go.

Who acts: places, many plants, some · What happens: warm, move, not move, have, go · To what, where: poles

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 (places, many plants, some), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 warm	mark
2	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warm	nsubj
3	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 move	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 move	punct
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plants	amod
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 move	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 animals	cc
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plants	conj
9	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 poles	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 poles	det
12	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 move	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 mountains	cc
14	up	up	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mountains	amod
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 poles	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 move	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 move	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 move	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 move	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 move	advmod
21	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 move	conj
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 move	advmod
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 move	advmod
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 move	conj
26	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 higher	advmod
27	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 have	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 higher	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 move	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	warm	present	places			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	move	present	many plants and animals	the poles or up mountains		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards pole=Trajectory
3	not move	can	some		enough, fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	some not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	go	to-infinitive	some not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.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): R5-strong ×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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