Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures, sentence 18

In India a medicine given to cattle poisoned the vultures that ate dead cattle, and almost all of them died; dead animals lay rotting and stray dogs and rats increased, and the medicine was then banned for cattle.

Who acts: medicine, vultures, all, dead animals, stray dogs · What happens: give, poison, eat, die, lay, rot · To what, where: medicine, cattle, vultures, India, dead cattle

This is a sentence of the lesson «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» 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 (medicine, vultures, all, dead animals), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 India	case
2	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 poisoned	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 medicine	det
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poisoned	nsubj
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 medicine	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 cattle	case
7	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 given	obl
8	poisoned	poison	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vultures	det
10	vultures	vulture	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 poisoned	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 ate	nsubj
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 vultures	acl:relcl
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cattle	amod
14	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ate	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 died	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 died	cc
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 all	advmod
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 died	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 all	nmod
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 poisoned	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 rotting	punct
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 animals	amod
24	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lay	nsubj
25	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 poisoned	conj
26	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 lay	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 increased	cc
28	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dogs	amod
29	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 increased	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rats	cc
31	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dogs	conj
32	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lay	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 banned	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 banned	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 medicine	det
36	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 banned	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 banned	aux:pass
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 banned	advmod
39	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 increased	conj
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 cattle	case
41	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 banned	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 poisoned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle		a medicine not said here	cattle				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cattle=Recipient
2	poison	past	a medicine	the vultures		India			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vulture=Patient
3	eat	past	the vultures	dead cattle					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient
4	die	past	all						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	lay	present	dead animals						tree rules
6	rot	gerund	dead animals not said here						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	increase	past	stray dogs and rats						vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
8	ban	past · passive		the medicine			then	for cattle	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures.lesson:18.

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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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