Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 6
In the Kherson region, Askania-Nova, set up in 1898, kept a big piece of steppe never ploughed and helped save wild animals such as Przewalski's horses.
Who acts: steppe · What happens: set up, keep, not plough, help, save · To what, where: Askania, 1898, big piece, Kherson region, wild animals
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 (steppe), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 region | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 region | det |
| 3 | Kherson | Kherson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 region | compound |
| 4 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Askania | punct |
| 6 | Askania | Askania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 region | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Nova | punct |
| 8 | Nova | Nova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Askania | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Askania | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1898 | case |
| 13 | 1898 | 1898 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 set | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 region | punct |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 piece | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 piece | amod |
| 18 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 steppe | case |
| 20 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 piece | nmod |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 ploughed | advmod |
| 22 | ploughed | plough | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 steppe | acl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 helped | cc |
| 24 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kept | conj |
| 25 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 helped | xcomp |
| 26 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 animals | amod |
| 27 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 save | obj |
| 28 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 animals | amod |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 horses | case |
| 30 | Przewalski | Przewalski | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 horses | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Przewalski | case |
| 32 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 animals | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | participle | Askania not said here | 1898 | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1898=Destination | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | a big piece of steppe | the Kherson region | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in region=Location | ||||
| 3 | not plough | past | steppe not said here | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help | past | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | save | infinitive | wild animals | as Przewalski's horses | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
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: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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