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title: Jane Goodall spent her life protecting chimps and teaching children… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Cars… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jane Goodall spent her life protecting chimps and teaching children about nature, until she died in 2025. Who acts: Jane. A sentence of the lesson «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 6

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Jane Goodall spent her life protecting chimps and teaching children about nature, until she died in 2025.

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**Who acts:** Jane · **What happens:** spend, protect, teach, die · **To what, where:** life, chimps, children

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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 (Jane), 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:6
# text = Jane Goodall spent her life protecting chimps and teaching children about nature, until she died in 2025.
# 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	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Goodall	Goodall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	teaching	teach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **spend** | past | Jane | Jane's life |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
| 2 | **protect** | gerund | Jane *not said here* | chimps |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimp=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | gerund | Jane *not said here* |  | children |  |  | about nature | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent child=Recipient about nature=Topic |
| 4 | **die** | past | Jane |  |  |  |  | in 2025 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2025=Attribute |

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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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