--- title: Nets, electric fishing and dams did the rest, and the giant Chinese… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: Nets, electric fishing and dams did the rest, and the giant Chinese paddlefish was lost too. Who acts: Nets. A sentence of the lesson «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/5/) [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/) / [China's great rivers: the finless porp…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/) / 5 # China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 5 Nets, electric fishing and dams did the rest, and the giant Chinese paddlefish was lost too. **Who acts:** Nets · **What happens:** do, lose · **To what, where:** rest, giant Chinese paddlefish This is a sentence of the lesson «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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 (Nets), 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:5 # text = Nets, electric fishing and dams did the rest, and the giant Chinese paddlefish was lost too. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 dams dam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 paddlefish paddlefish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 18 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Nets and electric fishing and dams | the rest | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Eventuality | | 2 | **lose** | past · passive | | the giant Chinese paddlefish | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | 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:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [China's great rivers: the finless porp…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/4/) - next →: [China's great rivers: the finless porp…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/)