--- title: Askania-Nova in the Kherson region was set up in 1898 by Friedrich F… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics description: Askania-Nova in the Kherson region was set up in 1898 by Friedrich Falz-Fein as a nature reserve and zoo with animals from many continents, zebras and antelopes too, and it protects one of the biggest pieces of unploughed steppe. Who acts: Friedrich, bustard. 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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 (Friedrich, bustard), 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:17 # text = Askania-Nova in the Kherson region was set up in 1898 by Friedrich Falz-Fein as a nature reserve and zoo with animals from many continents, zebras and antelopes too, and it protects one of the biggest pieces of unploughed steppe. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Askania Askania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 3 Nova Nova PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Kherson Kherson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 1898 1898 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Friedrich Friedrich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl:agent _ _ 15 Falz Falz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 17 Fein Fein PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 18 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 reserve reserve NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 continents continent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 zebras zebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 antelopes antelope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 33 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 42 amod _ _ 42 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 unploughed unplough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 steppe steppe NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set up** | past · passive | Friedrich | Askania in the Kherson region | | 1898 | | as a nature reserve with animals from many continents and zebras and antelopes and zoo | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1898=Destination | | 2 | **protect** | present | bustard | one of the biggest pieces of unploughed steppe | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary | 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:17`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, g…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/16/) - next →: [Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, g…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/)