--- title: Only a tiny part of real steppe is left, mostly in reserves and on o… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics description: Only a tiny part of real steppe is left, mostly in reserves and on old burial mounds called kurgans, where old steppe flowers and insects survive like on an island. Who acts: old burial mounds, old steppe flowers. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Aska --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 20 Only a tiny part of real steppe is left, mostly in reserves and on old burial mounds called kurgans, where old steppe flowers and insects survive like on an island. **Who acts:** old burial mounds, old steppe flowers · **What happens:** leave, call, survive · **To what, where:** tiny part, reserves, kurgans, old burial mounds, island · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (old burial mounds, old steppe flowers), 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:20 # text = Only a tiny part of real steppe is left, mostly in reserves and on old burial mounds called kurgans, where old steppe flowers and insects survive like on an island. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3 1 Only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 steppe steppe NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 reserves reserve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 burial burial NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 mounds mound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod 20 kurgans kurgan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 steppe steppe NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 29 like like ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . 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 | **leave** | present · passive | | a tiny part of real steppe | | reserves and old burial mounds | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in reserve=Location | | 2 | **call** | participle | old burial mounds *not said here* | kurgans | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **survive** | present | old steppe flowers and insects | old burial mounds *not said here* | | a island | | like *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mound=Circumstance | 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:20`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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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