--- title: Dian Fossey studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda and fought against p… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Cars… · tree and pragmatics description: Dian Fossey studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda and fought against poachers who trapped them; her work helped start the protection that saved them. Who acts: Dian, poachers, work, protection. 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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 (Dian, poachers, work, protection), 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:8 # text = Dian Fossey studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda and fought against poachers who trapped them; her work helped start the protection that saved them. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dian Dian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Fossey Fossey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 studied study VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 gorillas gorilla NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Rwanda Rwanda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 against against ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 poachers poacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 trapped trap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **study** | past | Dian | mountain gorillas | | Rwanda | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gorilla=Topic | | 2 | **fight** | past | Dian *not said here* | | | | | against poachers | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **trap** | past | poachers | gorillas *= gorilla* | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **help** | past | Dian's work | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **start** | infinitive | Dian's work *not said here* | the protection | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protection=Eventuality | | 6 | **save** | past | the protection | gorillas *= gorilla* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 7 | **work** | | Dian | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:8`. **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): 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. 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