Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 6

Only a few thousand shoebills are left in the wild because swamps are drained and eggs are taken, and despite their scary stare they are shy birds.

Who acts: eggs, swamps · What happens: leave, drain, take, be, stare · To what, where: few thousand shoebills, wild, swamps, eggs, shy birds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 (eggs, swamps), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	7 left	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shoebills	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoebills	amod
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 shoebills	nummod
5	shoebills	shoebill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 left	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux:pass
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wild	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wild	det
10	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 drained	mark
12	swamps	swamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 drained	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 drained	aux:pass
14	drained	drain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 left	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 taken	cc
16	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 taken	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux:pass
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 drained	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 birds	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 birds	cc
21	despite	despite	ADP	_	24 stare	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 stare	nmod:poss
23	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stare	amod
24	stare	stare	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 birds	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 birds	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 birds	cop
27	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 birds	amod
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 left	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		a few thousand shoebills	the wild		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in wild=Location
2	drain	present · passive		swamps			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
3	take	present · passive		eggs			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is a	present	eggs = egg	shy birds		despite swamps's scary stare	tree rules
5	stare		swamps = swamp				nom stare «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:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:6.

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): no change. 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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