Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 11

By 1987 only 27 California condors were left, all caught for breeding because lead from bullets in carcasses poisoned them; there are now more than 500, over half flying free.

Who acts: all, carcasses · What happens: leave, catch, poison, be, fly · To what, where: 27 California condors, carcasses

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 (all, carcasses), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 1987	case
2	1987	1987	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 left	obl
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 27	advmod
4	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 condors	nummod
5	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 condors	compound
6	condors	condor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 left	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux:pass
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1987	punct
10	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	11 caught	nsubj
11	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 condors	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 breeding	case
13	breeding	breeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caught	obl
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 poisoned	mark
15	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 breeding	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 bullets	case
17	bullets	bullet	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lead	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 carcasses	case
19	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bullets	nmod
20	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 carcasses	acl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 poisoned	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 are	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 are	expl
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 500	cop
25	now	now	ADV	_	24 are	advmod
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	28 500	advmod
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 500	case
28	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 left	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 flying	punct
30	over	over	ADV	_	31 half	advmod
31	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	32 flying	advmod
32	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 500	conj
33	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 flying	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		27 California condors	by 1987	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by 1987=Location
2	catch	participle	all	27 California condors not said here	for breeding	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent condor=Theme for breeding=Beneficiary
3	poison	participle	carcasses not said here	carcasses = carcass		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	is	present			than 500	tree rules
5	fly	gerund			free, half property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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:078-conservation-animals-come-back.lesson:11.

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 ×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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