--- title: Red kites were wiped out in England by the late 1800s; birds from Sp… — Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales,… · tree and pragmatics description: Red kites were wiped out in England by the late 1800s; birds from Spain were released from 1989, and now there are thousands; they eat mostly dead animals and are no danger to people. Who acts: late 1800s, thousands. 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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 (late 1800s, thousands), 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:13 # text = Red kites were wiped out in England by the late 1800s; birds from Spain were released from 1989, and now there are thousands; they eat mostly dead animals and are no danger to people. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 kites kite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 wiped wipe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 1800s 1800 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 1989 1989 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 25 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 29 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wipe out** | past · passive | the late 1800s | Red kites | | England | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in england=Trajectory | | 2 | **release** | past · passive | | birds from Spain | | 1989 | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source | | 3 | **does** | present | thousands | | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | present | thousands *= thousand* | dead animals | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | thousands *= thousand* *not said here* | no danger | | | | to people | tree rules | 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:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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