Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 15
Beach cleans stop plastic washing back into the sea, and counting the rubbish helps scientists find where it comes from; lost fishing nets, called ghost gear, can keep catching animals for years.
Who acts: Beach cleans, counting, scientists, clean, lost fishing nets · What happens: stop, count, help, find, come, lose · To what, where: plastic washing, rubbish, animals · 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 (Beach cleans, counting, scientists, clean), 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 | Beach | Beach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cleans | compound |
| 2 | cleans | clean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 washing | compound |
| 5 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 washing | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 washing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 counting | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 counting | cc |
| 12 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 helps | csubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rubbish | det |
| 14 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 counting | obj |
| 15 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | conj |
| 16 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 find | nsubj |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 helps | xcomp |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 comes | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 comes | nsubj |
| 20 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | ccomp |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 comes | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 nets | punct |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 nets | amod |
| 24 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nets | compound |
| 25 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 keep | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gear | punct |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 gear | amod |
| 28 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gear | compound |
| 29 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nets | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 keep | punct |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 keep | aux |
| 32 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stop | parataxis |
| 33 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 keep | xcomp |
| 34 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 catching | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 years | case |
| 36 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 catching | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Beach cleans | plastic washing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality washing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | count | gerund | the rubbish | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | present | counting | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | infinitive | scientists | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | present | clean | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | call | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | keep | can | lost fishing nets and called ghost gear | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | catch | gerund | lost fishing nets and called ghost gear not said here | animals | year | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:15.
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 ×6, 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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