--- title: Conservation means protecting living things and their homes so that… — Conservation: how people help animals come back · tree and pragmatics description: Conservation means protecting living things and their homes so that animals on the edge can come back, and it works: bald eagles, humpback whales, red kites and Arabian oryx have all returned from the brink. Who acts: Conservation, animals, bald eagles. 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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 (Conservation, animals, bald eagles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:078-conservation-animals-come-back.lesson:0 # text = Conservation means protecting living things and their homes so that animals on the edge can come back, and it works: bald eagles, humpback whales, red kites and Arabian oryx have all returned from the brink. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 078-conservation-animals-come-back.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Conservation conservation NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 protecting protect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 4 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 so so SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 23 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 humpback humpback NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 kites kite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 Arabian Arabian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 oryx oryx NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=30:conj 34 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 all all ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 returned return VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 parataxis _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 brink brink NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Conservation | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **protect** *not said to happen* | gerund | Conservation *not said here* | living things and things's homes | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Beneficiary | | 3 | **come back** | can | animals on the edge | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **work** | present | Conservation | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **return** | present · perfect | bald eagles and humpback whales and red kites and Arabian oryx | | | the brink | | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from brink=Initial\_Location | 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:078-conservation-animals-come-back.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Endangered animals and extinction, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/14/) - next →: [Conservation: how people help animals…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/)