Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 20

Only a tiny part of real steppe is left, mostly in reserves and on old burial mounds called kurgans, where old steppe flowers and insects survive like on an island.

Who acts: old burial mounds, old steppe flowers · What happens: leave, call, survive · To what, where: tiny part, reserves, kurgans, old burial mounds, island · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old burial mounds, old steppe flowers), 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	_	4 part	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 part	det
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 part	amod
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 steppe	case
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 steppe	amod
7	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 left	aux:pass
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reserves	punct
11	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	13 reserves	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 reserves	case
13	reserves	reserve	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 left	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mounds	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 mounds	case
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mounds	amod
17	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mounds	compound
18	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 reserves	conj
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 mounds	acl
20	kurgans	kurgan	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 called	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flowers	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 old	advmod
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 flowers	amod
24	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flowers	compound
25	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 survive	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 insects	cc
27	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 flowers	conj
28	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mounds	acl:relcl
29	like	like	ADV	_	28 survive	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 island	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 island	det
32	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 survive	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		a tiny part of real steppe	reserves and old burial mounds		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in reserve=Location
2	call	participle	old burial mounds not said here	kurgans			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	survive	present	old steppe flowers and insects	old burial mounds not said here	a island	like property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mound=Circumstance

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:20.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. 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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