China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 15
In 2021 China banned fishing on the main Yangtze and many lakes for ten years, to let fish recover, which also feeds porpoises; scientists report more fish and porpoises in some places since.
Who acts: China, fish, scientists · What happens: ban, let, recover, feed, report · To what, where: fishing, 2021, fish, porpoises, more fish, places
This is a sentence of the lesson «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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, fish, scientists), 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 2021 | case |
| 2 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 banned | obl |
| 3 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 banned | nsubj |
| 4 | banned | ban | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 banned | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Yangtze | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Yangtze | det |
| 8 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Yangtze | amod |
| 9 | Yangtze | Yangtze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fishing | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lakes | cc |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lakes | amod |
| 12 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Yangtze | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 banned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 let | mark |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 banned | advcl |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feeds | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 feeds | nsubj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 feeds | advmod |
| 24 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 recover | acl:relcl |
| 25 | porpoises | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 feeds | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 report | punct |
| 27 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 report | nsubj |
| 28 | report | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 banned | parataxis |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 fish | amod |
| 30 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 report | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 porpoises | cc |
| 32 | porpoises | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fish | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 places | case |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 places | det |
| 35 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 report | obl |
| 36 | since | since | ADV | _ | 28 report | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 banned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | past | China | fishing | 2021 | year | on the main Yangtze and many lakes | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fishing=Theme | |
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | China not said here | fish | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | recover | infinitive | fish not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feed | present | porpoises | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porpoise=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | report | present | scientists | more fish and porpoises | some places | since property | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:15.
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 ×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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