Balance in a food web, sentence 14
In Yellowstone Park, returning wolves reduced the number of deer and the riverside trees grew back.
Who acts: returning wolves, riverside trees · What happens: return, reduce, grow back · To what, where: number, Yellowstone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance in a food web» of the world 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 (returning wolves, riverside trees), 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 Yellowstone | case |
| 2 | Yellowstone | Yellowstone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reduced | obl |
| 3 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Yellowstone | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yellowstone | punct |
| 5 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 wolves | amod |
| 6 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reduced | nsubj |
| 7 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 number | det |
| 9 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reduced | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 deer | case |
| 11 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 number | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grew | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 14 | riverside | riverside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trees | compound |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reduced | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 grew | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reduced | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | reduce | past | returning wolves | the number of deer | Yellowstone | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer number=Patient | |||
| 3 | grow back | past | the riverside trees | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:world:030-balance-in-food-webs.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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