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title: Some dams have been repaired for hundreds of years by family after f… — Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges · tree and pragmatics
description: Some dams have been repaired for hundreds of years by family after family of beavers, each one fixing the dam it inherited. Who acts: family, one, beaver. A sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 13

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Some dams have been repaired for hundreds of years by family after family of beavers, each one fixing the dam it inherited.

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**Who acts:** family, one, beaver · **What happens:** repair, fix, inherit · **To what, where:** dams, dam

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» 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 (family, one, beaver), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.lesson:13
# text = Some dams have been repaired for hundreds of years by family after family of beavers, each one fixing the dam it inherited.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	dams	dam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	repaired	repair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	beavers	beaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dam	dam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repair** | present · perfect · passive | family after family of beavers and each one | some dams |  |  |  | for hundreds of years | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **fix** | gerund | each one *not said here* | the dam |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dam=Patient |
| 3 | **inherit** | past | beaver | the dam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=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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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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