--- title: These stories show that saving a species is hard and slow, but it re… — Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales,… · tree and pragmatics description: These stories show that saving a species is hard and slow, but it really works. Who acts: stories, saving, story. A sentence of the lesson «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpbac…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo/) / 3 # Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 3 These stories show that saving a species is hard and slow, but it really works. **Who acts:** stories, saving, story · **What happens:** show, save, be, work · **To what, where:** species · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (stories, saving, story), 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:3 # text = These stories show that saving a species is hard and slow, but it really works. # 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): no change 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 saving save VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 species species NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 really really ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 . . 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 | **show** | present | this stories | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **save** | gerund | | a species | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | saving | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | saving *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **work** | present | story | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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. 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