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title: Every comeback story has people behind it: scientists who watched an… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Cars… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every comeback story has people behind it: scientists who watched animals for years, writers who warned the world, and rangers who guard animals day and night. Who acts: comeback story, scientists, writers, rangers. A sentence of the lesson «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha
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# Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 0

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Every comeback story has people behind it: scientists who watched animals for years, writers who warned the world, and rangers who guard animals day and night.

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**Who acts:** comeback story, scientists, writers, rangers · **What happens:** have, watch, warn, guard · **To what, where:** people, it, animals, world

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» 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 (comeback story, scientists, writers, rangers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.lesson:0
# text = Every comeback story has people behind it: scientists who watched animals for years, writers who warned the world, and rangers who guard animals day and night.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.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): no change
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	comeback	comeback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	rangers	ranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	guard	guard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every comeback story | people |  | it |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **watch** | past | scientists and writers and rangers | animals |  |  | year |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | writers | the world |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent world=Recipient |
| 4 | **guard** | present | rangers |  | animals |  | day |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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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