The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 9

The zone in Ukraine is about 2,600 square kilometres, and there is a zone on the Belarus side too; without people, forests and meadows grew back into villages and fields.

Who acts: zone, forests · What happens: be, grow back · To what, where: 2,600 square kilometres, villages

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 (zone, forests), 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	2 zone	det
2	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kilometres	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ukraine	case
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 zone	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kilometres	cop
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 2,600	advmod
7	2,600	2,600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 kilometres	nummod
8	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kilometres	amod
9	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 is	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kilometres	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 zone	det
15	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 side	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 side	det
18	Belarus	Belarus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 side	compound
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 zone	nmod
20	too	too	ADV	_	13 is	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 grew	punct
22	without	without	ADP	_	23 people	case
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 grew	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 people	punct
25	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 grew	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 meadows	cc
27	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 forests	conj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kilometres	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 grew	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	31 villages	case
31	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 grew	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fields	cc
33	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 villages	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 kilometres	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the zone in Ukraine	2,600 square kilometres			tree rules
2	be	present	a zone on the Belarus side		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow back	past	forests and meadows			into villages and fields result; without people	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into village=Result

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:9.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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