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title: After people left the area around Chornobyl in 1986, wolves, elk, bi… — Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: After people left the area around Chornobyl in 1986, wolves, elk, bison, lynx and wild horses moved in; radiation is still there, and scientists study how the animals live with it. Who acts: people, wolves, radiation, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and
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# Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 14

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After people left the area around Chornobyl in 1986, wolves, elk, bison, lynx and wild horses moved in; radiation is still there, and scientists study how the animals live with it.

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**Who acts:** people, wolves, radiation, scientists, animals · **What happens:** leave, move in, be, study, live · **To what, where:** area, Chornobyl

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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 (people, wolves, radiation, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:14
# text = After people left the area around Chornobyl in 1986, wolves, elk, bison, lynx and wild horses moved in; radiation is still there, and scientists study how the animals live with it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Chornobyl	Chornobyl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	elk	elk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	lynx	lynx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	radiation	radiation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	study	study	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | people | the area |  | Chornobyl |  | in 1986 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent area=Theme in 1986=Location |
| 2 | **move in** | past | wolves and elk and bison and lynx and wild horses |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | radiation |  |  |  | still | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **study** | present | scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **live** | infinitive | the animals |  |  |  |  | with radiation | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with it=Location |

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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:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:14`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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