--- title: Almost all of it was ploughed into fields full of wheat and sunflowe… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics description: Almost all of it was ploughed into fields full of wheat and sunflowers, and its animals had to survive in reserves and on old burial mounds called kurgans. Who acts: animals, old burial mounds. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» of the bio --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 5 Almost all of it was ploughed into fields full of wheat and sunflowers, and its animals had to survive in reserves and on old burial mounds called kurgans. **Who acts:** animals, old burial mounds · **What happens:** plough, have, survive, call · **To what, where:** all, fields, reserves, kurgans · **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 (animals, old burial mounds), 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:5 # text = Almost all of it was ploughed into fields full of wheat and sunflowers, and its animals had to survive in reserves and on old burial mounds called kurgans. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Almost almost ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 ploughed plough VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 sunflowers sunflower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 survive survive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 reserves reserve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 burial burial NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 mounds mound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 28 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 kurgans kurgan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plough** | past · passive | | all | | fields | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into field=Destination | | 2 | **have** | past | steppe's animals | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **survive** | to-infinitive | steppe's animals *not said here* | | | reserves and old burial mounds | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reserve=Location | | 4 | **call** | participle | old burial mounds *not said here* | kurgans | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.lesson:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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