Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 6
Today people try to protect island animals like the kakapo with guards and predator-free islands, so the same thing does not happen again.
Who acts: people, same thing · What happens: try, protect, not happen · To what, where: island animals
This is a sentence of the lesson «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» 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 (people, same thing), 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 | Today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 try | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 try | nsubj |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 protect | mark |
| 5 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 try | xcomp |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 animals | compound |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 protect | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 kakapo | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kakapo | det |
| 10 | kakapo | kakapo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 protect | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 guards | case |
| 12 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 protect | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 islands | cc |
| 14 | predator | predator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 islands | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 predator | punct |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 islands | amod |
| 17 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 guards | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 happen | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 happen | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thing | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thing | amod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 happen | nsubj |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 happen | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 happen | advmod |
| 25 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 protect | conj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 happen | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | people | today | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | protect not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | island animals | like the kakapo; with guards and predator free islands | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | not happen | present · do-support | the same thing | again | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.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): 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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