Caring for the environment, sentence 8

Protecting nature means keeping homes for wild animals — forests, wetlands, meadows and seas — because when a habitat is destroyed, the animals living there lose their food and shelter.

Who acts: Protecting, animals · What happens: protect, mean, keep, destroy, live, lose · To what, where: nature, homes, habitat, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» 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 (Protecting, animals), 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	Protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	csubj
2	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Protecting	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	ccomp
5	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keeping	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 animals	case
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 homes	nmod
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 forests	punct
10	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 homes	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wetlands	punct
12	wetlands	wetland	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 forests	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 meadows	punct
14	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 forests	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seas	cc
16	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 forests	conj
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 lose	mark
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 destroyed	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 habitat	det
21	habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 destroyed	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 destroyed	aux:pass
23	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 means	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 destroyed	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 animals	det
26	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lose	nsubj
27	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 animals	acl
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 living	advmod
29	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 destroyed	parataxis
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 food	nmod:poss
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lose	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 shelter	cc
33	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 food	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	protect	gerund		nature			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Beneficiary
2	mean	present	Protecting				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	gerund		homes		for wild animals	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme
4	destroy	present · passive		a habitat			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	live	gerund	the animals not said here		there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lose	infinitive	the animals	animals's food and shelter			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Eventuality

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:057-environment.lesson:8.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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