--- title: People cut and burn parts of the Amazon for farms and ranches, and b… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics description: People cut and burn parts of the Amazon for farms and ranches, and because trees help make the Amazon's rain, when trees go, less rain falls, soil washes away and animals lose homes. Who acts: People, trees, less rain, soil. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, trees, less rain, soil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:15 # text = People cut and burn parts of the Amazon for farms and ranches, and because trees help make the Amazon's rain, when trees go, less rain falls, soil washes away and animals lose homes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 burn burn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 ranches ranch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 18 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 washes wash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 38 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | present | People | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **burn** | present | People *not said here* | parts of the Amazon for farms and ranches | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | trees | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | People *not said here* | the Amazon's rain | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rain=Product | | 5 | **go** | present | trees | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | present | less rain | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **wash away** | present | soil | | | | | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **lose** | present | animals | homes | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Eventuality | | 9 | **rain** | | the Amazon | | | | | | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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](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. 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