--- title: Beaver ponds slow floods, clean water and keep streams flowing in dr… — Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges · tree and pragmatics description: Beaver ponds slow floods, clean water and keep streams flowing in dry seasons; in America green strips were seen along beaver streams during droughts and wildfires while the land around them burned. Who acts: Beaver ponds, streams, land. 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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 (Beaver ponds, streams, land), 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:16 # text = Beaver ponds slow floods, clean water and keep streams flowing in dry seasons; in America green strips were seen along beaver streams during droughts and wildfires while the land around them burned. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 slow slow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 clean clean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:compound 18 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 22 along along ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 during during ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 droughts drought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 wildfires wildfire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 around around ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 34 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slow** | present | Beaver ponds | floods | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flood=Patient | | 2 | **clean** | present | Beaver ponds *not said here* | water | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 3 | **keep** | present | Beaver ponds *not said here* | streams | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **flow** | gerund | streams *not said here* | | | | season | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past · passive | | green strips | | | during droughts and wildfires | along beaver streams; America *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 6 | **burn** | past | the land around strips | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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