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title: Deep in a Ukrainian reserve a huge dark shape stands among the trees… — Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deep in a Ukrainian reserve a huge dark shape stands among the trees, as heavy as a small car: a European bison, zubr in Ukrainian, the heaviest land animal in Europe. Who acts: huge dark shape. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» of the 
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# Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears, sentence 0

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Deep in a Ukrainian reserve a huge dark shape stands among the trees, as heavy as a small car: a European bison, zubr in Ukrainian, the heaviest land animal in Europe.

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**Who acts:** huge dark shape · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** Ukrainian reserve, trees

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» 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 (huge dark shape), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.lesson:0
# text = Deep in a Ukrainian reserve a huge dark shape stands among the trees, as heavy as a small car: a European bison, zubr in Ukrainian, the heaviest land animal in Europe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
4	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reserve	reserve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	zubr	zubr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **stand** | present | a huge dark shape | a Ukrainian reserve |  | the trees |  | deep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among tree=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:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, 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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