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title: Not every story ends in extinction: when people stop the harm and pr… — Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not every story ends in extinction: when people stop the harm and protect a kind of animal, it can come back, sometimes from just a few dozen. Who acts: story, people. A sentence of the lesson «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» of the biology course of Mova's pr
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# Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 0

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Not every story ends in extinction: when people stop the harm and protect a kind of animal, it can come back, sometimes from just a few dozen.

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**Who acts:** story, people · **What happens:** not end, stop, protect, come back · **To what, where:** extinction, harm, kind, few dozen

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» 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 (story, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:0
# text = Not every story ends in extinction: when people stop the harm and protect a kind of animal, it can come back, sometimes from just a few dozen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	extinction	extinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	dozen	dozen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **end** | present | every story |  |  | extinction |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stop** | present | people | the harm |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector harm=Eventuality |
| 3 | **protect** | present | people *not said here* | a kind of animal |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **come back** | can | story |  |  | a few dozen |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from dozen=Initial\_Location |

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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:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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