--- title: Rewilding means letting nature run itself again, often by returning… — Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and br… · tree and pragmatics description: Rewilding means letting nature run itself again, often by returning missing animals; at Knepp in England a farm was left to go wild, and storks, turtle doves and nightingales came back. Who acts: Rewilding, nature, farm, storks. 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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 (Rewilding, nature, farm, storks), 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:13 # text = Rewilding means letting nature run itself again, often by returning missing animals; at Knepp in England a farm was left to go wild, and storks, turtle doves and nightingales came back. # 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 ×2 1 Rewilding rewilding NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 4 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 by by SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 returning return VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 12 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Knepp Knepp PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advcl 25 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 doves dove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 nightingales nightingale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 34 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 35 back back ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Rewilding | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** | gerund | | nature | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **run** | infinitive | nature *not said here* | nature | | | again | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme itself=Trajectory | | 4 | **return** | gerund | | missing animals | | | | often *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | past · passive | | a farm | | Knepp in England | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | a farm *not said here* | | | | | wild *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **come back** | past | storks and turtle doves and nightingales | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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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