--- title: Island foxes on California's Channel Islands are about the size of a… — Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red c… · tree and pragmatics description: Island foxes on California's Channel Islands are about the size of a house cat; they were saved from near extinction partly by moving golden eagles away. Who acts: Island foxes. A sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs/16/) [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/) / [Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the d…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs/) / 16 # Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 16 Island foxes on California's Channel Islands are about the size of a house cat; they were saved from near extinction partly by moving golden eagles away. **Who acts:** Island foxes · **What happens:** be, save, move away · **To what, where:** size, foxes, near extinction, golden eagles This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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 (Island foxes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:16 # text = Island foxes on California's Channel Islands are about the size of a house cat; they were saved from near extinction partly by moving golden eagles away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 Channel Channel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Islands Island PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 saved save VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 near near ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 extinction extinction NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 partly partly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 24 by by SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 26 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Island foxes on California's Channel Islands | the size | | | | of a house cat; about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **save** | past · passive | | foxes *= fox* | | near extinction | | partly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from extinction=Source | | 3 | **move away** | gerund | | golden eagles | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme eagle=Result | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:16`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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