--- title: Now China has banned fishing on the main Yangtze for ten years, and… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: Now China has banned fishing on the main Yangtze for ten years, and the small Chinese alligator, which may have helped inspire dragon legends, is being bred and released. Who acts: China, small Chinese alligator. 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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, small Chinese alligator), 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:6 # text = Now China has banned fishing on the main Yangtze for ten years, and the small Chinese alligator, which may have helped inspire dragon legends, is being bred and released. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Now now ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 banned ban VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 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 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 alligator alligator NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 21 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux _ _ 23 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advcl 24 inspire inspire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:VerbForm=Inf 25 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 bred breed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **ban** | present · perfect | China | fishing | | the main Yangtze | now; year | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fishing=Theme | | 2 | **help** | may · perfect | the small Chinese alligator | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **inspire** | infinitive | the small Chinese alligator *not said here* | dragon legends | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus legend=Experiencer | | 4 | **breed** | present · passive | | the small Chinese alligator | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **release** | participle | | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer | 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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