The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 1
Picture a town where nobody has walked for 40 years: birches grow through flats, moss covers the roads.
Who acts: you, nobody, birches, moss · What happens: picture, walk, grow, cover · To what, where: town, flats, roads
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 (you, nobody, birches, moss), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 town | det |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 walked | advmod |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 walked | aux |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 town | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 9 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walked | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 grow | punct |
| 12 | birches | birch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grow | nsubj |
| 13 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 flats | case |
| 15 | flats | flat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grow | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 covers | punct |
| 17 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 covers | nsubj |
| 18 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 roads | det |
| 20 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 covers | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a town | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | present · perfect | nobody | year | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | birches | flats | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through flat=Location | ||||
| 4 | cover | present | moss | the roads | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Destination |
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:1.
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): R7-rel-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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