--- title: Black Sea dolphins were hunted for oil and meat until hunting was ba… — Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black S… · tree and pragmatics description: Black Sea dolphins were hunted for oil and meat until hunting was banned, in the Soviet Union in 1966. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/12/) [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 waters: Danube delta pelican…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/) / 12 # Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 12 Black Sea dolphins were hunted for oil and meat until hunting was banned, in the Soviet Union in 1966. **What happens:** hunt, ban · **To what, where:** Sea dolphins, hunting, Soviet Union This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.lesson:12 # text = Black Sea dolphins were hunted for oil and meat until hunting was banned, in the Soviet Union in 1966. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.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 Black Black PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 hunted hunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 until until SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 banned ban VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Soviet Soviet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 1966 1966 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **hunt** | past · passive | | Sea dolphins | | | | for oil and meat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for oil=Theme | | 2 | **ban** | past · passive | | hunting | | the Soviet Union | | in 1966 | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.lesson:12`. **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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