Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 0

Conservation means protecting living things and their homes so that animals on the edge can come back, and it works: bald eagles, humpback whales, red kites and Arabian oryx have all returned from the brink.

Who acts: Conservation, animals, bald eagles · What happens: mean, protect, come back, work, return · To what, where: living things, brink

This is a sentence of the lesson «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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 (Conservation, animals, bald eagles), 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	Conservation	conservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 protecting	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 homes	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 homes	nmod:poss
8	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 things	conj
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 come	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 come	nsubj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 edge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 edge	det
14	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animals	nmod
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 protecting	advcl
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 works	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 works	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 works	nsubj
21	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 works	punct
23	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 eagles	amod
24	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 returned	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 whales	punct
26	humpback	humpback	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whales	compound
27	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 eagles	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 kites	punct
29	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 kites	amod
30	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 eagles	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 oryx	cc
32	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 oryx	amod
33	oryx	oryx	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eagles	conj
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 returned	aux
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 returned	advmod
36	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 works	parataxis
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 brink	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 brink	det
39	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 returned	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Conservation				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	protect not said to happen	gerund	Conservation not said here	living things and things's homes			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Beneficiary
3	come back	can	animals on the edge				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	work	present	Conservation				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	return	present · perfect	bald eagles and humpback whales and red kites and Arabian oryx		the brink	all property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from brink=Initial_Location

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:078-conservation-animals-come-back.lesson:0.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, 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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