--- title: Picture a town where nobody has walked for 40 years: birches grow th… — The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back,… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a town where nobody has walked for 40 years: birches grow through flats, moss covers the roads. Who acts: you, nobody, birches, moss. A sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/1/) [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/) / [The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals c…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/) / 1 # The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 1 Picture a town where nobody has walked for 40 years: birches grow through flats, moss covers the roads. **Who acts:** you, nobody, birches, moss · **What happens:** picture, walk, grow, cover · **To what, where:** town, flats, roads This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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 (you, nobody, birches, moss), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.lesson:1 # text = Picture a town where nobody has walked for 40 years: birches grow through flats, moss covers the roads. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 advmod _ _ 5 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 7 nsubj _ _ 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 walked walk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 birches birch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 14 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 flats flat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a town | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent town=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | present · perfect | nobody | | | | year | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present | birches | | | flats | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through flat=Location | | 4 | **cover** | present | moss | the roads | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Destination | 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:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.lesson:1`. **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): 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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