--- title: In 1995 and 1996, 31 wolves were brought back from Canada; the elk h… — Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and br… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1995 and 1996, 31 wolves were brought back from Canada; the elk had to keep moving again, and in some places young trees could grow, which helped beavers and birds. Who acts: elk, young trees. 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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 (elk, young trees), 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:1 # text = In 1995 and 1996, 31 wolves were brought back from Canada; the elk had to keep moving again, and in some places young trees could grow, which helped beavers and birds. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1995 1995 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 1996 1996 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 31 31 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 back back ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 elk elk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 again again ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj 26 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj 28 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 33 beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring back** | past · passive | | 31 wolves | | 1995 | | from Canada | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from canada=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **have** | past | the elk | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the elk *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **move** | gerund | the elk *not said here* | | | | again | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | could | young trees | | | some places | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | | 6 | **help** | past | | | beavers and birds | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=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:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, 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. 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