Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 18
Przewalski's horses are wild horses from Mongolia that died out in the wild and survived in zoos; Askania-Nova helped breed them, and some were later let go in the Chornobyl zone.
Who acts: horses, wild horses, Askania, some · What happens: be, die out, survive, help, breed, let · To what, where: wild horses, Mongolia, zoos, horses, some, Chornobyl zone
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 (horses, wild horses, Askania, some), 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 | Przewalski | Przewalski | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 horses | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Przewalski | case |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 horses | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 horses | cop |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horses | amod |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Mongolia | case |
| 8 | Mongolia | Mongolia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 horses | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 horses | acl:relcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 died | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wild | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wild | det |
| 14 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 survived | cc |
| 16 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 died | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 zoos | case |
| 18 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 survived | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Askania | punct |
| 20 | Askania | Askania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 helped | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Nova | punct |
| 22 | Nova | Nova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Askania | flat |
| 23 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 horses | parataxis |
| 24 | breed | breed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 helped | xcomp |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 breed | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 let | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 let | cc |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 let | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 let | aux:pass |
| 30 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 let | advmod |
| 31 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 helped | conj |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 let | xcomp |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 zone | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 zone | det |
| 35 | Chornobyl | Chornobyl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 zone | compound |
| 36 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 horses | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Przewalski's horses | wild horses | Mongolia | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die out | past | wild horses | in the wild; out property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wild=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | survive | past | wild horses not said here | zoos | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location | ||||
| 4 | help | past | Askania | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | breed | infinitive | Askania not said here | horses = horse | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | let | past · passive | some | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go | infinitive | some not said here | the Chornobyl zone | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in zone=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:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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