--- title: Chinese sturgeon live in the sea and swim up the Yangtze to lay eggs… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: Chinese sturgeon live in the sea and swim up the Yangtze to lay eggs, but dams now block their old places; in some recent years no wild breeding was seen, and people breed and release them. Who acts: Chinese sturgeon, dams, people. 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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 sturgeon, dams, people), 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:21 # text = Chinese sturgeon live in the sea and swim up the Yangtze to lay eggs, but dams now block their old places; in some recent years no wild breeding was seen, and people breed and release them. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sturgeon sturgeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Yangtze Yangtze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl 14 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 dams dam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 block block VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 26 recent recent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 29 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 breeding breed NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 breed breed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 release release VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Chinese sturgeon | | | the sea | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | | 2 | **swim up** | present | Chinese sturgeon *not said here* | the Yangtze | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location yangtze=Theme | | 3 | **lay** | to-infinitive | Chinese sturgeon *not said here* | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 4 | **block** | present | dams | dams's old places | | | now | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer place=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past · passive | | no wild breeding | | | year | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 6 | **breed** | present | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **release** | present | people *not said here* | dams *= dam* | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source | 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:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:21`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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