China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders, sentence 7
China has set up reserves and green corridors of forest so animals can move between them, because forests cut into small islands leave animals hungry, with only close relatives left to mate with.
Who acts: China, animals, forests, close relatives · What happens: set up, move, cut, leave, mate · To what, where: reserves, forests, animals
This is a sentence of the lesson «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» 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 (China, animals, forests, close relatives), 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 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | aux |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | reserves | reserve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 corridors | cc |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 corridors | amod |
| 8 | corridors | corridor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reserves | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 corridors | nmod |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 14 move | mark |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 move | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 move | aux |
| 14 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | advcl |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 move | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 leave | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 leave | mark |
| 19 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 leave | nsubj |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 forests | acl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 islands | case |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 islands | amod |
| 23 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cut | obl |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 move | advcl |
| 25 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 leave | obj |
| 26 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 leave | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 left | punct |
| 28 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 32 left | mark |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 relatives | advmod |
| 30 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 relatives | amod |
| 31 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 left | nsubj |
| 32 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 leave | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 mate | mark |
| 34 | mate | mate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 left | xcomp |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 mate | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | present · perfect | China | reserves and green corridors of forest | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient reserve=Result | ||||
| 2 | move | can | animals | between forests = forest | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme between they=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cut | participle | forests not said here | into small islands | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into island=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | present | forests | animals | hungry property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 5 | leave | participle | close relatives | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | mate | to-infinitive | close relatives not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.lesson:7.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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