China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 7
Saving a river means looking after the whole river, not one animal.
Who acts: Saving · What happens: save, mean, look · To what, where: river, one animal · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Saving), 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 | Saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Saving | obj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | ccomp |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 river | amod |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 animal | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 animal | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 animal | nummod |
| 13 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | gerund | a river | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Saving | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | one animal | after the whole river | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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: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): 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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