--- title: Saving a river means looking after the whole river, not one animal. — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: Saving a river means looking after the whole river, not one animal. Who acts: Saving. 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 and the pragmatics of e --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 7 Saving a river means looking after the whole river, not one animal. **Who acts:** Saving · **What happens:** save, mean, look · **To what, where:** river, one animal · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Saving), 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:7 # text = Saving a river means looking after the whole river, not one animal. # 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 Saving save VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 ccomp _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 . . 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 | **save** | gerund | | a river | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Saving | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **look** | gerund | | one animal | | | after the whole river | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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. 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