--- title: Water voles have vanished from most of the places in Britain where t… — The real animals of the river bank: the water vo… · tree and pragmatics description: Water voles have vanished from most of the places in Britain where they once lived, mainly because American mink that escaped from fur farms hunt them in their burrows, and because river banks were cleared and walled. Who acts: Water voles, places, American mink. 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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 (Water voles, places, American mink), 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:9 # text = Water voles have vanished from most of the places in Britain where they once lived, mainly because American mink that escaped from fur farms hunt them in their burrows, and because river banks were cleared and walled. # 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): R5-strong ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 voles vole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 vanished vanish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 15 advmod _ _ 15 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 19 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 mink mink NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 burrows burrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 cleared clear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 walled wall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 40 . . 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 | **vanish** | present · perfect | Water voles | most from the places in Britain | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | past | places *= place* | | | | | once *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **escape** | past | American mink | | | fur farms | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from farm=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **hunt** | present | American mink | places *= place* | | places's burrows | | mainly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in burrow=Location | | 5 | **clear** | past · passive | | river banks | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | | 6 | **wall** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:9`. **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 ×5, R8-pos-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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