--- title: In India a medicine given to cattle poisoned the vultures that ate d… — Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures · tree and pragmatics description: In India a medicine given to cattle poisoned the vultures that ate dead cattle, and almost all of them died; dead animals lay rotting and stray dogs and rats increased, and the medicine was then banned for cattle. Who acts: medicine, vultures, all, dead animals. 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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 (medicine, vultures, all, dead animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures.lesson:18 # text = In India a medicine given to cattle poisoned the vultures that ate dead cattle, and almost all of them died; dead animals lay rotting and stray dogs and rats increased, and the medicine was then banned for cattle. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 poisoned poison VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 vultures vulture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 almost almost ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 26 rotting rot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 xcomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 stray stray ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 increased increase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 39 banned ban VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 conj _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | participle | | a medicine *not said here* | cattle | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cattle=Recipient | | 2 | **poison** | past | a medicine | the vultures | | India | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vulture=Patient | | 3 | **eat** | past | the vultures | dead cattle | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient | | 4 | **die** | past | all | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **lay** | present | dead animals | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **rot** | gerund | dead animals *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **increase** | past | stray dogs and rats | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **ban** | past · passive | | the medicine | | | then | for cattle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures.lesson:18`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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