--- title: Beaver dams slow floods, clean water and make ponds full of life, th… — Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and br… · tree and pragmatics description: Beaver dams slow floods, clean water and make ponds full of life, though some farmers worry about flooded fields. Who acts: Beaver dams, farmers. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back/11/) [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/) / [Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Brit…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back/) / 11 # Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 11 Beaver dams slow floods, clean water and make ponds full of life, though some farmers worry about flooded fields. **Who acts:** Beaver dams, farmers · **What happens:** slow, clean, make, worry, flood · **To what, where:** floods, water, ponds This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» 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 (Beaver dams, farmers), 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:11 # text = Beaver dams slow floods, clean water and make ponds full of life, though some farmers worry about flooded fields. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Beaver beaver NOUN NN _ 2 compound _ _ 2 dams dam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 slow slow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 though though SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 worry worry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 flooded flood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 . . 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 | **slow** | present | Beaver dams | floods | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flood=Patient | | 2 | **clean** | infinitive | Beaver dams *not said here* | water | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | Beaver dams *not said here* | ponds | | | | full *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pond=Product | | 4 | **worry** | present | some farmers | | | | | about flooded fields | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about field=Stimulus | | 5 | **flood** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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. 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