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title: Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain about 400 years ago for… — Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges · tree and pragmatics
description: Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain about 400 years ago for their fur and are now being brought back to some rivers. 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 the pragmatics of every claus
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# Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 15

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Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain about 400 years ago for their fur and are now being brought back to some rivers.

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**What happens:** hunt, bring back · **To what, where:** Beavers, Britain

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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: 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:15
# text = Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain about 400 years ago for their fur and are now being brought back to some rivers.
# 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	Beavers	beaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	extinction	extinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past · passive |  | Beavers |  | Britain |  | to extinction; for hundreds's fur; ago *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for fur=Theme |
| 2 | **bring back** | present · passive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» |

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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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**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:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.lesson:15`.

**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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