Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 17
Askania-Nova in the Kherson region was set up in 1898 by Friedrich Falz-Fein as a nature reserve and zoo with animals from many continents, zebras and antelopes too, and it protects one of the biggest pieces of unploughed steppe.
Who acts: Friedrich, bustard · What happens: set up, protect · To what, where: Askania, 1898, one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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 (Friedrich, bustard), 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 | Askania | Askania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 set | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Nova | punct |
| 3 | Nova | Nova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Askania | flat |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 region | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 region | det |
| 6 | Kherson | Kherson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 region | compound |
| 7 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Askania | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | aux:pass |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1898 | case |
| 12 | 1898 | 1898 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 set | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Friedrich | case |
| 14 | Friedrich | Friedrich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl:agent |
| 15 | Falz | Falz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Friedrich | flat |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fein | punct |
| 17 | Fein | Fein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Friedrich | flat |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 reserve | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 reserve | det |
| 20 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reserve | compound |
| 21 | reserve | reserve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 zoo | cc |
| 23 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reserve | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 animals | case |
| 25 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 reserve | nmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 continents | case |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 continents | amod |
| 28 | continents | continent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 animals | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 zebras | punct |
| 30 | zebras | zebra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 continents | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 antelopes | cc |
| 32 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 continents | conj |
| 33 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 set | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 protects | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 protects | cc |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 protects | nsubj |
| 37 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | conj |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 protects | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 pieces | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 pieces | det |
| 41 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 pieces | amod |
| 42 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 one | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 steppe | case |
| 44 | unploughed | unplough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 steppe | amod |
| 45 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 pieces | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | past · passive | Friedrich | Askania in the Kherson region | 1898 | as a nature reserve with animals from many continents and zebras and antelopes and zoo | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1898=Destination | ||
| 2 | protect | present | bustard | one of the biggest pieces of unploughed steppe | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary |
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:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.lesson:17.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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