Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 1
The recipe is usually simple to say and hard to do: stop the killing, protect and join up the homes, remove new dangers like rats or poison, breed animals safely and set them free again.
Who acts: recipe · What happens: be, say, do, stop, protect, join up · To what, where: killing, homes, new dangers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (recipe), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 recipe | det |
| 2 | recipe | recipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 simple | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 simple | cop |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 simple | advmod |
| 5 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 simple | csubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hard | cc |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 simple | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hard | xcomp |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 stop | punct |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 simple | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 killing | det |
| 15 | killing | killing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stop | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 protect | punct |
| 17 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 stop | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 join | cc |
| 19 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 protect | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 join | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 homes | det |
| 22 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 join | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remove | punct |
| 24 | remove | remove | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 protect | conj |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dangers | amod |
| 26 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 remove | obj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 rats | case |
| 28 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dangers | nmod |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 poison | cc |
| 30 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rats | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 breed | punct |
| 32 | breed | breed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 animals | compound |
| 33 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dangers | conj |
| 34 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 32 breed | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 set | cc |
| 36 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 remove | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 set | obj |
| 38 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 set | xcomp |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 set | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 simple | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the recipe | simple, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | be | the recipe not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | the recipe not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stop | infinitive | the killing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality killing=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | protect | infinitive | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | join up | infinitive | the homes | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | |||||
| 8 | remove | infinitive | new dangers and breed animals | like rats or poison | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Theme | ||||
| 9 | set | infinitive | homes = home | again | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
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:1.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.
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