--- title: By the 1920s every wolf in Yellowstone Park in America had been kill… — Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and br… · tree and pragmatics description: By the 1920s every wolf in Yellowstone Park in America had been killed, and without them the elk grew bold, stood by the rivers and munched the young willow and aspen trees. Who acts: 1920s, elk. 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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 (1920s, elk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.lesson:0 # text = By the 1920s every wolf in Yellowstone Park in America had been killed, and without them the elk grew bold, stood by the rivers and munched the young willow and aspen trees. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 By by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1920s 1920s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Yellowstone Yellowstone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Park Park PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 without without ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 elk elk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 bold bold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 munched munch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 aspen aspen NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive | the 1920s | every wolf in Yellowstone Park in America | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | past | the elk | | | | | without them *= they*; bold *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stand** | past | the elk *not said here* | | | | | by the rivers | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by river=Location | | 4 | **munch** | past | the 1920s *not said here* | the young willow and aspen trees | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent willow=Patient | 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:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.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, R6-punct-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. 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