--- title: Rachel Carson wrote a book, Silent Spring, about how pesticides harm… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Cars… · tree and pragmatics description: Rachel Carson wrote a book, Silent Spring, about how pesticides harmed birds, and it helped get DDT banned in America, which is where the bald eagle's comeback began. Who acts: Rachel, pesticides, book, DDT. 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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 (Rachel, pesticides, book, DDT), 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:2 # text = Rachel Carson wrote a book, Silent Spring, about how pesticides harmed birds, and it helped get DDT banned in America, which is where the bald eagle's comeback began. # 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 Rachel Rachel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Carson Carson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Silent Silent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 8 Spring Spring PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 pesticides pesticide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 harmed harm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 20 DDT ddt NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 banned ban VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 xcomp _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 comeback comeback NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 34 . . 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 | **write** | past | Rachel | a book | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | | 2 | **harm** | past | pesticides | birds | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | | 3 | **help** | past | book | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | book *not said here* | DDT | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **ban** | participle | DDT *not said here* | | | America | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 6 | **is** | present | America | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **begin** | past | the bald eagle's comeback | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.lesson:2`. **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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