China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 6
Now China has banned fishing on the main Yangtze for ten years, and the small Chinese alligator, which may have helped inspire dragon legends, is being bred and released.
Who acts: China, small Chinese alligator · What happens: ban, help, inspire, breed, release · To what, where: fishing, main Yangtze, dragon legends, small Chinese alligator
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, small Chinese alligator), 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 | Now | now | ADV | _ | 4 banned | advmod |
| 2 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 banned | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 banned | aux |
| 4 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 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 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 banned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bred | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bred | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 alligator | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 alligator | amod |
| 17 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 alligator | amod |
| 18 | alligator | alligator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bred | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 helped | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 helped | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 helped | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 helped | aux |
| 23 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 alligator | acl:relcl |
| 24 | inspire | inspire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 helped | xcomp |
| 25 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 legends | compound |
| 26 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 inspire | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bred | punct |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 bred | aux:pass |
| 29 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 bred | aux:pass |
| 30 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 banned | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 released | cc |
| 32 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 bred | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 banned | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | present · perfect | China | fishing | the main Yangtze | now; year | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fishing=Theme | ||
| 2 | help | may · perfect | the small Chinese alligator | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | inspire | infinitive | the small Chinese alligator not said here | dragon legends | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus legend=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | breed | present · passive | the small Chinese alligator | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | release | participle | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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