Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 9

Red kites were almost wiped out in England and Scotland by poisoning and shooting; so few were left that birds of the same kind from Spain and Sweden were released from 1989, and there are now thousands of pairs.

Who acts: thousands · What happens: wipe out, poison, leave, release, be · To what, where: Red kites, England, few, birds, 1989

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 (thousands), 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	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kites	amod
2	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wiped	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wiped	aux:pass
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 wiped	advmod
5	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 wiped	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 England	case
8	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wiped	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Scotland	cc
10	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 England	conj
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 poisoning	mark
12	poisoning	poison	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 wiped	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shooting	cc
14	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 poisoning	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 left	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 few	advmod
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 left	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 left	aux:pass
19	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 wiped	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 released	mark
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 released	nsubj:pass
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 kind	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 kind	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kind	amod
25	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 birds	nmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 Spain	case
27	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 kind	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Sweden	cc
29	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Spain	conj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 released	aux:pass
31	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 left	advcl
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 1989	case
33	1989	1989	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 released	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 are	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 are	cc
36	there	there	PRON	_	37 are	expl
37	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 released	conj
38	now	now	ADV	_	37 are	advmod
39	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 are	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 pairs	case
41	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 thousands	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wiped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe out	past · passive		Red kites	England and Scotland		almost property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in england=Trajectory
2	poison	gerund						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past · passive		few				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	release	past · passive		birds of the same kind from Spain and Sweden	1989			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
5	does	present	thousands of pairs		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «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:9.

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, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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