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title: Each year more than a million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles,… — The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds · tree and pragmatics
description: Each year more than a million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, follow the rain and fresh grass in a loop round the Serengeti and the Masai Mara, even across crocodile rivers. Who acts: million wildebeest. A sentence of the lesson «The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds» of the biology co
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# The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds, sentence 7

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Each year more than a million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, follow the rain and fresh grass in a loop round the Serengeti and the Masai Mara, even across crocodile rivers.

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**Who acts:** million wildebeest · **What happens:** follow · **To what, where:** rain, loop

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds» 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 (million wildebeest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:004-the-savanna.lesson:7
# text = Each year more than a million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, follow the rain and fresh grass in a loop round the Serengeti and the Masai Mara, even across crocodile rivers.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 004-the-savanna.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
6	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	wildebeest	wildebeest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	zebras	zebra	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gazelles	gazelle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	loop	loop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Serengeti	Serengeti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Masai	Masai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Mara	Mara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	across	across	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | million wildebeest with zebras and gazelles | the rain and fresh grass |  | a loop round the Serengeti and the Masai Mara | year | across crocodile rivers | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rain=Theme in loop=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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:004-the-savanna.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/).

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