The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 13
The pine trees nearest the reactor were killed by radiation and turned red-brown, giving the Red Forest its name; new birches and pines have grown back since.
Who acts: radiation, new birches · What happens: kill, turn, give, grow back, name · To what, where: pine trees, name, Red Forest
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 (radiation, new birches), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trees | det |
| 2 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trees | compound |
| 3 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | nearest | nearest | ADP | _ | 6 reactor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reactor | det |
| 6 | reactor | reactor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trees | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 killed | aux:pass |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 radiation | case |
| 10 | radiation | radiation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 killed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 killed | conj |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brown | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 red | punct |
| 15 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 turned | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 giving | punct |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 turned | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Forest | det |
| 19 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Forest | flat |
| 20 | Forest | Forest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | iobj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 name | nmod:poss |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 killed | punct |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 birches | amod |
| 25 | birches | birch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 grown | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pines | cc |
| 27 | pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 birches | conj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 grown | aux |
| 29 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 giving | advcl |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 grown | advmod |
| 31 | since | since | ADV | _ | 29 grown | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | radiation | the pine trees nearest the reactor | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | radiation not said here | brown property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | radiation not said here | radiation's name | the Red Forest | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent forest=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 4 | grow back | present · perfect | new birches and pines | since property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | name | radiation | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:13.
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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