China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 19

The Chinese paddlefish could grow several metres long and was declared extinct in 2020, after dams blocked it from the places where it laid eggs.

Who acts: Chinese paddlefish, dams, rain · What happens: grow, declare, block, lay · To what, where: 2020, rain, places, eggs

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 (Chinese paddlefish, dams, rain), 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 paddlefish	det
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 paddlefish	amod
3	paddlefish	paddlefish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 metres	amod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 grow	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 declared	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 declared	aux:pass
11	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grow	conj
12	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 declared	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 2020	case
14	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 declared	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 blocked	punct
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 blocked	mark
17	dams	dam	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 blocked	nsubj
18	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 declared	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 blocked	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 places	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 places	det
22	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 blocked	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 laid	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 laid	nsubj
25	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 places	acl:relcl
26	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 laid	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	could	the Chinese paddlefish			long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past · passive	the Chinese paddlefish not said here		2020	extinct property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
3	block	past	dams	rain	the places		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary from place=Eventuality
4	lay	past	rain	eggs			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:19.

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): no change. 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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