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title: Dams on rivers, roads, new buildings and the loss of resting places… — Migration: the great journeys · tree and pragmatics
description: Dams on rivers, roads, new buildings and the loss of resting places along the way all make migration harder today. Who acts: Dams. A sentence of the lesson «Migration: the great journeys» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Migration: the great journeys, sentence 17

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Dams on rivers, roads, new buildings and the loss of resting places along the way all make migration harder today.

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**Who acts:** Dams · **What happens:** rest, make · **To what, where:** migration

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration: the great journeys» 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 (Dams), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson:17
# text = Dams on rivers, roads, new buildings and the loss of resting places along the way all make migration harder today.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 054-migration-the-great-journeys.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Dams	dam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
22	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **rest** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | Dams on rivers and roads and new buildings along the way and the loss of resting places | migration |  |  | today | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset migration=Product |

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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:054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson:17`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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