--- title: Beavers build dams that make ponds where many other animals live, an… — Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hipp… · tree and pragmatics description: Beavers build dams that make ponds where many other animals live, and one beaver dam in Canada is so big it can be seen in pictures taken from space. Who acts: Beavers, dams, many other animals, one beaver dam. 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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 (Beavers, dams, many other animals, one beaver dam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:11 # text = Beavers build dams that make ponds where many other animals live, and one beaver dam in Canada is so big it can be seen in pictures taken from space. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.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): no change 1 Beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 dams dam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 15 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 dam dam NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 . . 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 | **build** | present | Beavers | dams | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product | | 2 | **make** | present | dams | ponds | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pond=Product | | 3 | **live** | present | many other animals | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | one beaver dam in Canada | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **see** | can · passive | | shoebill | | pictures | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 6 | **take** | participle | | pictures *not said here* | | space | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from space=Initial\_Location | 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:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:11`. **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): no change. **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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