--- title: The Chinese paddlefish could grow several metres long and was declar… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: The Chinese paddlefish could grow several metres long and was declared extinct in 2020, after dams blocked it from the places where it laid eggs. Who acts: Chinese paddlefish, dams, rain. 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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 (Chinese paddlefish, dams, rain), 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:19 # text = The Chinese paddlefish could grow several metres long and was declared extinct in 2020, after dams blocked it from the places where it laid eggs. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 paddlefish paddlefish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 declared declare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 12 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 after after SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 dams dam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 blocked block VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | could | the Chinese paddlefish | | | | | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive | the Chinese paddlefish *not said here* | | | 2020 | | extinct *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» | | 3 | **block** | past | dams | rain | | the places | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary from place=Eventuality | | 4 | **lay** | past | rain | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | 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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