--- title: Sea otters were hunted for their fur almost to extinction, and prote… — Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales,… · tree and pragmatics description: Sea otters were hunted for their fur almost to extinction, and protection brought them back along the Pacific coast; they eat sea urchins, which eat kelp, so otters protect kelp forests. Who acts: protection, otters, sea urchins. 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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 (protection, otters, sea urchins), 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:7 # text = Sea otters were hunted for their fur almost to extinction, and protection brought them back along the Pacific coast; they eat sea urchins, which eat kelp, so otters protect kelp forests. # 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 ×2 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 otters otter 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 hunted hunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 almost almost ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 extinction extinction NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 along along ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 24 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 urchins urchin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 kelp kelp NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 32 otters otter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 protect protect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 34 kelp kelp NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | past · passive | | Sea otters | | | | for otters's fur; to extinction | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for fur=Theme | | 2 | **bring back** | past | protection | otters *= otter* | | | | along the Pacific coast | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | present | otters *= otter* | sea urchins | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent urchin=Patient | | 4 | **eat** | present | sea urchins | kelp | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kelp=Patient | | 5 | **protect** | present | otters | kelp forests | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Beneficiary | 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:7`. **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 ×2. **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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