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A sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» of the biology c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea ig…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/) / 15 # The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 15 Goats brought by people ate the plants tortoises needed; when people removed goats from many islands, plants and tortoises began to come back. **Who acts:** Goats, people, plants · **What happens:** bring, eat, need, remove, begin, come back · **To what, where:** Goats, plants tortoises, many islands This is a sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» 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 (Goats, people, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson:15 # text = Goats brought by people ate the plants tortoises needed; when people removed goats from many islands, plants and tortoises began to come back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.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 1 Goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:agent _ _ 5 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 7 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 compound _ _ 8 tortoises tortoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 removed remove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 14 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 tortoises tortoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | participle | | Goats *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **eat** | past | Goats | plants tortoises | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Patient | | 3 | **need** | participle | | plants tortoises *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **remove** | past | people | goats | | many islands | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent goat=Theme from island=Source | | 5 | **begin** | past | plants and tortoises | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **come back** | to-infinitive | plants and tortoises *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «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](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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