Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 7
Wolves were wiped out from Yellowstone by the 1920s, and 31 were brought back from Canada in 1995 and 1996; elk changed where they grazed, letting some riverside trees grow again, though scientists argue how big the effect was.
Who acts: 1920s, elk, riverside trees, scientists, effect · What happens: wipe out, bring back, change, graze, let, grow · To what, where: Wolves, Yellowstone, 31, Canada · 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 (1920s, elk, riverside trees, scientists), 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 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wiped | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wiped | aux:pass |
| 3 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 wiped | compound:prt |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Yellowstone | case |
| 6 | Yellowstone | Yellowstone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wiped | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 1920s | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 1920s | det |
| 9 | 1920s | 1920s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 wiped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brought | cc |
| 12 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux:pass |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wiped | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 brought | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Canada | case |
| 17 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1995 | case |
| 19 | 1995 | 1995 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 brought | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 1996 | cc |
| 21 | 1996 | 1996 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 1995 | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 changed | punct |
| 23 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 changed | nsubj |
| 24 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wiped | parataxis |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 grazed | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 grazed | nsubj |
| 27 | grazed | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 changed | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 letting | punct |
| 29 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 changed | advcl |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 trees | det |
| 31 | riverside | riverside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 trees | compound |
| 32 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 grow | nsubj |
| 33 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 letting | xcomp |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 grow | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 argue | punct |
| 36 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 38 argue | mark |
| 37 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 argue | nsubj |
| 38 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 changed | advcl |
| 39 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 big | advmod |
| 40 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 argue | ccomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 effect | det |
| 42 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 big | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 big | cop |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wiped | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe out | past · passive | the 1920s | Wolves | Yellowstone | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from yellowstone=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | bring back | past · passive | 31 | Canada | in 1995 | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from canada=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | change | past | elk | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | graze | past | elk | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | let | gerund | elk not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | grow | infinitive | some riverside trees | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | argue speech: disagree | present | scientists | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | past | the effect | big property | tree rules |
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:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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