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title: Big grazers like bison eat, trample and rub against young trees, ope… — Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Big grazers like bison eat, trample and rub against young trees, opening sunny clearings in a forest where other plants and animals can live. Who acts: Big grazers, other plants. A sentence of the lesson «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» of the biology course of Mova's primary
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# Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 10

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Big grazers like bison eat, trample and rub against young trees, opening sunny clearings in a forest where other plants and animals can live.

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**Who acts:** Big grazers, other plants · **What happens:** eat, trample, rub, open, live · **To what, where:** young trees, sunny clearings, forest

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» 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 (Big grazers, other plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:114-back-to-the-wild.lesson:10
# text = Big grazers like bison eat, trample and rub against young trees, opening sunny clearings in a forest where other plants and animals can live.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 114-back-to-the-wild.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grazers	grazer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	trample	trample	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rub	rub	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	clearings	clearing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Big grazers like bison |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trample** | present | Big grazers like bison *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rub** | present | Big grazers like bison *not said here* |  |  | young trees |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against tree=Destination |
| 4 | **open** | gerund | Big grazers like bison *not said here* | sunny clearings |  | a forest |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent clearing=Theme in forest=Location |
| 5 | **live** | can | other plants and animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:114-back-to-the-wild.lesson:10`.

**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. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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