Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 4

Bald eagles fell to about 400 to 500 nesting pairs in the lower 48 US states by the 1960s, partly because the pesticide DDT, building up from tiny water bugs into the fish and then into the eagles that ate them, made their eggshells too thin; after DDT was banned in 1972 they recovered to well over 300,000 birds.

Who acts: Bald eagles, 400 pairs, pesticide DDT, eagles · What happens: fell, nest, build up, eat, make, ban · To what, where: 400 pairs, tiny water bugs, eagles, eggshells, DDT, 1972

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 (Bald eagles, 400 pairs, pesticide DDT, eagles), 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	Bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eagles	amod
2	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 400	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 400	advmod
6	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 pairs	nummod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 500	case
8	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 400	nmod
9	nesting	nest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 pairs	acl
10	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	16 states	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 states	det
13	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 states	amod
14	48	48	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 states	nummod
15	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 states	compound
16	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pairs	nmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 1960s	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 1960s	det
19	1960s	1960s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 fell	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 DDT	punct
21	partly	partly	ADV	_	45 made	advmod
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	45 made	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 DDT	det
24	pesticide	pesticide	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 DDT	compound
25	DDT	DDT	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 made	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 building	punct
27	building	build	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 DDT	acl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 building	compound:prt
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 bugs	case
30	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bugs	amod
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bugs	compound
32	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 building	obl
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 fish	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fish	det
35	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 building	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 eagles	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 eagles	advmod
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 eagles	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 eagles	det
40	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fish	conj
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 ate	nsubj
42	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 eagles	acl:relcl
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 ate	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 DDT	punct
45	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	advcl
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 eggshells	nmod:poss
47	eggshells	eggshell	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 made	obj
48	too	too	ADV	_	49 thin	advmod
49	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 made	xcomp
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 banned	punct
51	after	after	SCONJ	_	54 banned	mark
52	DDT	DDT	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 banned	nsubj:pass
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 banned	aux:pass
54	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 recovered	advcl
55	in	in	ADP	_	56 1972	case
56	1972	1972	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	54 banned	obl
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 recovered	nsubj
58	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
59	to	to	ADP	_	63 birds	case
60	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	62 300,000	advmod
61	over	over	ADV	_	62 300,000	advmod
62	300,000	300000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	63 birds	nummod
63	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 recovered	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fell	past	Bald eagles	400 pairs in the lower 48 US states		by the 1960s	tree rules
2	nest	gerund	400 pairs in the lower 48 US states not said here				vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	build up	gerund	the pesticide DDT not said here		tiny water bugs	into the fish and the eagles	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	eat	past	the eagles	eagles = eagle			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	make	past	the pesticide DDT	eagles's eggshells		partly, thin property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eggshell=Product
6	ban	past · passive		DDT	1972		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	recover	past	eagles = eagle			to 300,000 birds	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:4.

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 ×3. 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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