The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds, sentence 7

Each year more than a million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, follow the rain and fresh grass in a loop round the Serengeti and the Masai Mara, even across crocodile rivers.

Who acts: million wildebeest · What happens: follow · To what, where: rain, loop

This is a sentence of the lesson «The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds» 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 (million wildebeest), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 follow	obl:unmarked
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 million	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	7 wildebeest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 million	det
6	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 wildebeest	nummod
7	wildebeest	wildebeest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 follow	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 zebras	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 zebras	case
10	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wildebeest	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gazelles	cc
12	gazelles	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 zebras	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wildebeest	punct
14	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rain	det
16	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 follow	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grass	cc
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grass	amod
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rain	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 loop	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 loop	det
22	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 follow	obl
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 Serengeti	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Serengeti	det
25	Serengeti	Serengeti	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 loop	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Mara	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Mara	det
28	Masai	Masai	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Mara	compound
29	Mara	Mara	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Serengeti	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rivers	punct
31	even	even	ADV	_	34 rivers	advmod
32	across	across	ADP	_	34 rivers	case
33	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rivers	compound
34	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 follow	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 follow	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	follow	present	million wildebeest with zebras and gazelles	the rain and fresh grass		a loop round the Serengeti and the Masai Mara	year	across crocodile rivers	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rain=Theme in loop=Trajectory

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:004-the-savanna.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/7/