The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 17
The bald eagle came back after the pesticide DDT, which made its eggshells thin, was banned in the United States in 1972 and the birds were protected; a book called Silent Spring by Rachel Carson had warned about DDT.
Who acts: bald eagle, pesticide DDT, book · What happens: come back, make, ban, protect, call, warn · To what, where: eggshells, United States, birds, book · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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 (bald eagle, pesticide DDT, book), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 2 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eagle | amod |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 DDT | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 DDT | det |
| 8 | pesticide | pesticide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 DDT | compound |
| 9 | DDT | ddt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 DDT | acl:relcl |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eggshells | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eggshells | eggshell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 banned | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 banned | aux:pass |
| 18 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 States | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 States | det |
| 21 | United | United | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 States | compound |
| 22 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 banned | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 1972 | case |
| 24 | 1972 | 1972 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 banned | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 protected | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 birds | det |
| 27 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 protected | aux:pass |
| 29 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 banned | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 book | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 book | det |
| 32 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 warned | nsubj |
| 33 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 book | acl |
| 34 | Silent | Silent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Spring | flat |
| 35 | Spring | Spring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 called | xcomp |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 Rachel | case |
| 37 | Rachel | Rachel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 called | nmod |
| 38 | Carson | Carson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Rachel | flat |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 warned | aux |
| 40 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 came | parataxis |
| 41 | about | about | ADP | _ | 42 DDT | case |
| 42 | DDT | ddt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 warned | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the bald eagle | after the pesticide DDT | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the pesticide DDT | eagle's eggshells | thin property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eggshell=Product | |||
| 3 | ban | past · passive | the bald eagle not said here | the United States | in 1972 | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||
| 4 | protect | past · passive | the birds | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | call | participle | a book not said here | by Rachel | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | warn speech: warn | past · perfect | a book | about DDT | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about ddt=Topic |
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.
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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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