--- title: In the Kherson region, Askania-Nova, set up in 1898, kept a big piec… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics description: In the Kherson region, Askania-Nova, set up in 1898, kept a big piece of steppe never ploughed and helped save wild animals such as Przewalski's horses. Who acts: steppe. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» of the biology course of Mova's p --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 6 In the Kherson region, Askania-Nova, set up in 1898, kept a big piece of steppe never ploughed and helped save wild animals such as Przewalski's horses. **Who acts:** steppe · **What happens:** set up, keep, not plough, help, save · **To what, where:** Askania, 1898, big piece, Kherson region, wild animals 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 (steppe), 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:6 # text = In the Kherson region, Askania-Nova, set up in 1898, kept a big piece of steppe never ploughed and helped save wild animals such as Przewalski's horses. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Kherson Kherson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Askania Askania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Nova Nova PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 1898 1898 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 15 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 steppe steppe NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 ploughed plough VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 26 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 Przewalski Przewalski PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set up** | participle | | Askania *not said here* | | 1898 | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1898=Destination | | 2 | **keep** | past | | a big piece of steppe | | the Kherson region | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in region=Location | | 3 | **not** **plough** | past | steppe *not said here* | | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | past | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **save** | infinitive | | wild animals | | | | as Przewalski's horses | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | 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:6`. **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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