--- title: Only a few thousand shoebills are left in the wild because swamps ar… — Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles… · tree and pragmatics description: Only a few thousand shoebills are left in the wild because swamps are drained and eggs are taken, and despite their scary stare they are shy birds. Who acts: eggs, swamps. A sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» of the biology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-n…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish/) / 6 # Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 6 Only a few thousand shoebills are left in the wild because swamps are drained and eggs are taken, and despite their scary stare they are shy birds. **Who acts:** eggs, swamps · **What happens:** leave, drain, take, be, stare · **To what, where:** few thousand shoebills, wild, swamps, eggs, shy birds This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 (eggs, swamps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:6 # text = Only a few thousand shoebills are left in the wild because swamps are drained and eggs are taken, and despite their scary stare they are shy birds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.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 Only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 shoebills shoebill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 swamps swamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 drained drain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 despite despite ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 stare stare NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | present · passive | | a few thousand shoebills | | the wild | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in wild=Location | | 2 | **drain** | present · passive | | swamps | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | | 3 | **take** | present · passive | | eggs | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | eggs *= egg* | shy birds | | | | despite swamps's scary stare | tree rules | | 5 | **stare** | | swamps *= swamp* | | | | | | nom stare «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:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:6`. **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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