Endangered animals and extinction, sentence 7

Wild tigers live only in Asia; there may have been about 100,000 a century ago and only a few thousand now, but numbers in India and Nepal have grown in recent years thanks to protection.

Who acts: Wild tigers, numbers · What happens: live, be, grow · To what, where: few thousand, Asia, thanks

This is a sentence of the lesson «Endangered animals and extinction» 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 (Wild tigers, numbers), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tigers	amod
2	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Asia	case
6	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 ago	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 been	expl
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 been	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 been	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 ago	cop
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 100,000	advmod
13	100,000	100000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 been	nsubj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 century	det
15	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ago	obl:unmarked
16	ago	ago	ADV	_	21 thousand	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thousand	cc
18	only	only	ADV	_	21 thousand	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thousand	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thousand	amod
21	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 live	obl
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 thousand	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 grown	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 grown	cc
25	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 grown	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 India	case
27	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 numbers	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Nepal	cc
29	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 India	conj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 grown	aux
31	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 live	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 years	case
33	recent	recent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 years	amod
34	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 grown	obl
35	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grown	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 protection	case
37	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 thanks	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Wild tigers	a few thousand	Asia			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in asia=Location
2	is	participle				century	ago property	tree rules
3	grow	present · perfect	numbers in India and Nepal	thanks to protection		year		vn appear-48.1.1 «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:077-endangered-animals-and-extinction.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 ×4. 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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