The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 16

Hundreds of dogs in the zone come from pets left behind in 1986; scientists study their DNA, and volunteers vaccinate and feed them.

Who acts: Hundreds, scientists, volunteers · What happens: come, leave behind, study, vaccinate, feed · To what, where: pets, 1986, DNA, scientists

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 (Hundreds, scientists, volunteers), 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	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 dogs	case
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hundreds	nmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 zone	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 zone	det
6	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dogs	nmod
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 pets	case
9	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pets	acl
11	behind	behind	ADV	_	10 left	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 1986	case
13	1986	1986	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 left	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 study	punct
15	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 study	nsubj
16	study	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 come	parataxis
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 DNA	nmod:poss
18	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 study	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 vaccinate	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 vaccinate	cc
21	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 vaccinate	nsubj
22	vaccinate	vaccinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 study	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 feed	cc
24	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 vaccinate	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 feed	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	Hundreds of dogs in the zone		from pets	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pet=Initial_Location
2	leave behind	participle		pets not said here	in 1986 result; behind property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1986=Result
3	study	present	scientists	scientists's DNA		vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dna=Topic
4	vaccinate	present	volunteers			tree rules
5	feed	present	volunteers not said here	scientists = scientist		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:16.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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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