Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears, sentence 0

Deep in a Ukrainian reserve a huge dark shape stands among the trees, as heavy as a small car: a European bison, zubr in Ukrainian, the heaviest land animal in Europe.

Who acts: huge dark shape · What happens: stand · To what, where: Ukrainian reserve, trees

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» 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 (huge dark shape), 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	Deep	deep	ADV	_	10 stands	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ukrainian	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reserve	det
4	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reserve	amod
5	reserve	reserve	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stands	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shape	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shape	amod
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shape	amod
9	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stands	nsubj
10	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	among	among	ADP	_	13 trees	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stands	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heavy	punct
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 heavy	advmod
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stands	parataxis
17	as	as	ADP	_	20 car	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 car	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 car	amod
20	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heavy	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 bison	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bison	det
23	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bison	amod
24	bison	bison	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heavy	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 zubr	punct
26	zubr	zubr	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bison	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Ukrainian	case
28	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 zubr	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 animal	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 animal	det
31	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 animal	amod
32	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 animal	compound
33	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bison	appos
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 Europe	case
35	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 animal	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stands	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a huge dark shape	a Ukrainian reserve		the trees		deep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among tree=Location

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:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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