--- title: In 2021 China banned fishing on the main Yangtze and many lakes for… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: In 2021 China banned fishing on the main Yangtze and many lakes for ten years, to let fish recover, which also feeds porpoises; scientists report more fish and porpoises in some places since. Who acts: China, fish, scientists. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (China, fish, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:15 # text = In 2021 China banned fishing on the main Yangtze and many lakes for ten years, to let fish recover, which also feeds porpoises; scientists report more fish and porpoises in some places since. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 3 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 banned ban VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Yangtze Yangtze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 19 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 recover recover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 also also ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 porpoises porpoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 report report VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 29 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 amod _ _ 30 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 32 porpoises porpoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 35 det _ _ 35 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 36 since since ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ban** | past | China | fishing | | 2021 | year | on the main Yangtze and many lakes | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fishing=Theme | | 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | China *not said here* | fish | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **recover** | infinitive | fish *not said here* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feed** | present | | | porpoises | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porpoise=Recipient | | 5 | **report** | present | scientists | more fish and porpoises | | some places | | since *property* | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | 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. 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