The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 0

In 1986 a reactor at the Chornobyl power plant in Ukraine exploded and spread radiation, and people had to leave a large area around it.

Who acts: reactor, people · What happens: explode, spread, have, leave · To what, where: 1986, large area, reactor

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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 (reactor, people), 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	_	2 1986	case
2	1986	1986	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 exploded	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 reactor	det
4	reactor	reactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exploded	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 plant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plant	det
7	Chornobyl	Chornobyl	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 plant	compound
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plant	compound
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reactor	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Ukraine	case
11	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 plant	nmod
12	exploded	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 radiation	cc
14	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 exploded	conj
15	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exploded	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 exploded	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 leave	mark
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 area	det
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 area	amod
24	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	obj
25	around	around	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 leave	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 exploded	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	explode	past	a reactor at the Chornobyl power plant in Ukraine		1986	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1986=Location
2	spread	past	a reactor at the Chornobyl power plant in Ukraine not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	people			tree rules
4	leave	to-infinitive	people not said here	a large area	reactor	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent area=Theme around it=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:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.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): 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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