--- title: Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics description: Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back in reserves in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions. Who acts: Marmots. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/11/) [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/) / [Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, g…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/) / 11 # Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 11 Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back in reserves in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions. **Who acts:** Marmots · **What happens:** vanish, plough, come back · **To what, where:** most steppe, reserves This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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 (Marmots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.lesson:11 # text = Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back in reserves in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.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 Marmots marmot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 almost almost ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 steppe steppe NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 ploughed plough VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 reserves reserve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 Luhansk Luhansk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Kharkiv Kharkiv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 regions region NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vanish** | past | Marmots | | | | | almost *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **plough** | past · passive | | most steppe | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: subject=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **come back** | past | Marmots *not said here* | | | reserves in the Luhansk regions | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reserve=Location | 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:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.lesson:11`. **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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