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title: Steve Irwin was an Australian zoo keeper and TV presenter who loved… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Cars… · tree and pragmatics
description: Steve Irwin was an Australian zoo keeper and TV presenter who loved reptiles; he died in 2006 in an extremely rare stingray accident, and his family still runs Australia Zoo and saves wildlife. Who acts: Steve, Australian zoo keeper, family. A sentence of the lesson «Conservation heroes: Attenboroug
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# Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 7

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Steve Irwin was an Australian zoo keeper and TV presenter who loved reptiles; he died in 2006 in an extremely rare stingray accident, and his family still runs Australia Zoo and saves wildlife.

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**Who acts:** Steve, Australian zoo keeper, family · **What happens:** be, love, die, run, save · **To what, where:** Australian zoo keeper, reptiles, Australia Zoo, wildlife

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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 (Steve, Australian zoo keeper, family), 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:7
# text = Steve Irwin was an Australian zoo keeper and TV presenter who loved reptiles; he died in 2006 in an extremely rare stingray accident, and his family still runs Australia Zoo and saves wildlife.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Steve	Steve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Irwin	Irwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	presenter	presenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl
13	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	stingray	stingray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
31	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
35	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | past | Steve | a Australian zoo keeper and TV presenter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | past | a Australian zoo keeper and TV presenter | reptiles |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reptile=Stimulus |
| 3 | **die** | past | Steve |  |  |  |  | in a rare stingray accident; in 2006 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2006=Attribute |
| 4 | **run** | present | Steve's family | Australia Zoo |  |  | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zoo=Agent |
| 5 | **save** | present | Steve's family *not said here* | wildlife |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wildlife=Theme |

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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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**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:7`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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