Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 7
Forests, fish and soil renew themselves only if people do not use them faster than they grow back.
Who acts: Forests, people, resources · What happens: renew, not use, grow back · To what, where: resources
This is a sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» 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 (Forests, people, resources), 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 | Forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 renew | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fish | punct |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Forests | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 soil | cc |
| 5 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Forests | conj |
| 6 | renew | renew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 renew | obj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 use | advmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 use | mark |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 use | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 use | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 use | advmod |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 renew | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 use | obj |
| 15 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 use | advmod |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 grow | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grow | nsubj |
| 18 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 faster | advcl |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 grow | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 renew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | renew | present | Forests and fish and soil | resources = resource | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not use a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | people | resources = resource | fast property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | grow back | present | resources = resource | 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:047-natural-resources.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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