--- title: By 1987 only 27 California condors were left, all caught for breedin… — Conservation: how people help animals come back · tree and pragmatics description: By 1987 only 27 California condors were left, all caught for breeding because lead from bullets in carcasses poisoned them; there are now more than 500, over half flying free. Who acts: all, carcasses. A sentence of the lesson «Conservation: how people help animals come back» of the biology course o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Conservation: how people help animals…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/) / 11 # Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 11 By 1987 only 27 California condors were left, all caught for breeding because lead from bullets in carcasses poisoned them; there are now more than 500, over half flying free. **Who acts:** all, carcasses · **What happens:** leave, catch, poison, be, fly · **To what, where:** 27 California condors, carcasses This is a sentence of the lesson «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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 (all, carcasses), 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:11 # text = By 1987 only 27 California condors were left, all caught for breeding because lead from bullets in carcasses poisoned them; there are now more than 500, over half flying free. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1987 1987 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 27 27 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 condors condor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 all all PRON DT PronType=Tot 11 nsubj _ _ 11 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 13 breeding breeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:ExtPos=ADP 15 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 bullets bullet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 carcasses carcass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 poisoned poison VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 25 now now ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 28 advmod _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 parataxis _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 over over ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 32 advmod _ _ 32 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 conj _ _ 33 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past · passive | | 27 California condors | | | | by 1987 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by 1987=Location | | 2 | **catch** | participle | all | 27 California condors *not said here* | | | | for breeding | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent condor=Theme for breeding=Beneficiary | | 3 | **poison** | participle | carcasses *not said here* | carcasses *= carcass* | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | than 500 | tree rules | | 5 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | free, half *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:11`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Conservation: how people help animals…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/10/) - next →: [Conservation: how people help animals…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/)