Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 3
In cartoons one hero saves a species in an afternoon; in real life it takes scientists, rangers, zoo keepers and ordinary people working for decades, with every kakapo named and every condor counted.
Who acts: one hero, it, zoo keepers · What happens: save, take, work, name, count · To what, where: species, cartoons, scientists, real life, kakapo, condor
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 (one hero, it, zoo keepers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 cartoons | case |
| 2 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saves | obl |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hero | nummod |
| 4 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saves | nsubj |
| 5 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 species | det |
| 7 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saves | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 afternoon | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 afternoon | det |
| 10 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saves | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 takes | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 life | amod |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 takes | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 takes | nsubj |
| 16 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saves | parataxis |
| 17 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 takes | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rangers | punct |
| 19 | rangers | ranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scientists | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 keepers | punct |
| 21 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keepers | compound |
| 22 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scientists | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 people | cc |
| 24 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 people | amod |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scientists | conj |
| 26 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 keepers | acl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 decades | case |
| 28 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 working | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 kakapo | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 kakapo | case |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 kakapo | det |
| 32 | kakapo | kakapo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 working | obl |
| 33 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 kakapo | acl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 condor | cc |
| 35 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 condor | det |
| 36 | condor | condor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 named | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present | one hero | a species | cartoons | afternoon | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Theme | ||
| 2 | take | present | it | scientists and rangers and zoo keepers and ordinary people | real life | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent scientist=Value in life=Location | |||
| 3 | work | gerund | zoo keepers not said here | decade | with every kakapo | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with kakapo=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | name | participle | every kakapo not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | count | participle · passive | every condor | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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