Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 10

The kakapo is a flightless, nocturnal New Zealand parrot, the heaviest in the world; it nests on the ground, where rats and stoats eat its eggs and chicks, and only 51 were known in 1995, but on predator-free islands with every bird named and checked, numbers have risen to around 250.

Who acts: kakapo, rats, numbers · What happens: be, nest, eat, know, name, check · To what, where: flightless nocturnal Zealand parrot, ground, eggs, 51, 1995, bird

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 (kakapo, rats, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kakapo	det
2	kakapo	kakapo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parrot	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 parrot	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 parrot	det
5	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 parrot	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nocturnal	punct
7	nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 parrot	amod
8	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Zealand	amod
9	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 parrot	compound
10	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heaviest	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heaviest	det
13	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 parrot	appos
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heaviest	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 nests	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 nests	nsubj
19	nests	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 parrot	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nests	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eat	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 eat	advmod
25	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eat	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stoats	cc
27	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rats	conj
28	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 ground	acl:relcl
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eggs	nmod:poss
30	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eat	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 chicks	cc
32	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 eggs	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 known	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 known	cc
35	only	only	ADV	_	36 51	advmod
36	51	51	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 known	nsubj:pass
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 known	aux:pass
38	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 eat	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 1995	case
40	1995	1995	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 known	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 risen	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 risen	cc
43	on	on	ADP	_	47 islands	case
44	predator	predator	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 islands	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 predator	punct
46	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 islands	amod
47	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 risen	obl
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 bird	case
49	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	50 bird	det
50	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 islands	nmod
51	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 bird	acl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 checked	cc
53	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 named	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 islands	punct
55	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 risen	nsubj
56	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 risen	aux
57	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 eat	conj
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 250	case
59	around	around	ADV	_	60 250	advmod
60	250	250	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	57 risen	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 parrot	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kakapo	a flightless nocturnal Zealand parrot			tree rules
2	nest	present	kakapo		the ground		vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	present	rats and stoats	kakapo's eggs and chicks			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
4	know	past · passive		51	1995		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
5	name	participle		every bird not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	check	participle					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	rise	present · perfect	numbers		predator free islands with every bird	to 250	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on island=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:10.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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