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title: Otters almost disappeared from England in the 1960s and 1970s, mostl… — The real animals of the river bank: the water vo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Otters almost disappeared from England in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly because farm poisons got into the rivers and the fish; after those poisons were banned they came back, and they have been reported again in every county of England. Who acts: Otters, farm poisons, poisons. A sentence of the lesson
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# The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 16

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Otters almost disappeared from England in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly because farm poisons got into the rivers and the fish; after those poisons were banned they came back, and they have been reported again in every county of England.

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**Who acts:** Otters, farm poisons, poisons · **What happens:** disappear, get, ban, come back, report · **To what, where:** England, rivers, poisons, county

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» 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 (Otters, farm poisons, poisons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:16
# text = Otters almost disappeared from England in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly because farm poisons got into the rivers and the fish; after those poisons were banned they came back, and they have been reported again in every county of England.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.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	Otters	otter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	1960s	1960s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	_	15	compound	_	_
15	poisons	poison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	poisons	poison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
38	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	county	county	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | past | Otters |  |  | England |  | in the 1960s and 1970s; almost *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from england=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **get** | past | farm poisons |  |  | the rivers and the fish |  | mostly *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into river=Destination |
| 3 | **ban** | past · passive |  | that poisons |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **come back** | past | poisons *= poison* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **report** | present · perfect · passive |  | poisons *= poison* |  | every county of England | again |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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**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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