The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 11
In 1998 about 30 Przewalski's horses were let go in the zone; they grew to over a hundred and use old barns as shelter from heat and flies, filmed by cameras hidden in the buildings.
Who acts: 30 horses, horses · What happens: let, go, grow, use, film, hide · To what, where: 30 horses, 1998, zone, old barns, heat, flies
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 (30 horses, horses), 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 1998 | case |
| 2 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 let | obl |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 30 | advmod |
| 4 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 horses | nummod |
| 5 | Przewalski | Przewalski | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Przewalski | case |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 let | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | aux:pass |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 zone | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 zone | det |
| 13 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 grew | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 hundred | case |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 hundred | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hundred | det |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 grew | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 use | cc |
| 22 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 grew | conj |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 barns | amod |
| 24 | barns | barn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 use | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 shelter | case |
| 26 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 use | obl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 heat | case |
| 28 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 use | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 flies | cc |
| 30 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 heat | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 filmed | punct |
| 32 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 flies | acl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 cameras | case |
| 34 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 filmed | obl:agent |
| 35 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 cameras | acl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 buildings | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 buildings | det |
| 38 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hidden | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past · passive | Przewalski's 30 horses | 1998 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Przewalski's 30 horses not said here | the zone | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in zone=Location | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | horses = horse | to a hundred | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | use | present | horses = horse not said here | old barns | heat and flies | as shelter | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent barn=Duration as shelter=Attribute | ||
| 5 | film | participle | flies not said here | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hide | participle | cameras not said here | the buildings | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in building=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:11.
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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