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title: The pine trees nearest the reactor were killed by radiation and turn… — The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The pine trees nearest the reactor were killed by radiation and turned red-brown, giving the Red Forest its name; new birches and pines have grown back since. Who acts: radiation, new birches. A sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» of the 
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# The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 13

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The pine trees nearest the reactor were killed by radiation and turned red-brown, giving the Red Forest its name; new birches and pines have grown back since.

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**Who acts:** radiation, new birches · **What happens:** kill, turn, give, grow back, name · **To what, where:** pine trees, name, Red Forest

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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 (radiation, new birches), 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:13
# text = The pine trees nearest the reactor were killed by radiation and turned red-brown, giving the Red Forest its name; new birches and pines have grown back since.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	nearest	nearest	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	reactor	reactor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	radiation	radiation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
20	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	birches	birch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	since	since	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · passive | radiation | the pine trees nearest the reactor |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past | radiation *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brown *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | radiation *not said here* | radiation's name | the Red Forest |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent forest=Recipient name=Theme |
| 4 | **grow back** | present · perfect | new birches and pines |  |  |  |  | since *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **name** |  | radiation |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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