--- title: Beach cleans stop plastic washing back into the sea, and counting th… — Conservation: how people help animals come back · tree and pragmatics description: Beach cleans stop plastic washing back into the sea, and counting the rubbish helps scientists find where it comes from; lost fishing nets, called ghost gear, can keep catching animals for years. Who acts: Beach cleans, counting, scientists, clean. 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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 (Beach cleans, counting, scientists, clean), 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:15 # text = Beach cleans stop plastic washing back into the sea, and counting the rubbish helps scientists find where it comes from; lost fishing nets, called ghost gear, can keep catching animals for years. # 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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Beach Beach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cleans clean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 5 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj 15 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:parataxis 16 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 20 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 24 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 28 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 gear gear NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 33 catching catch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 xcomp _ _ 34 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | Beach cleans | plastic washing | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality washing=Eventuality | | 2 | **count** | gerund | | the rubbish | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | counting | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **find** | infinitive | scientists | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **come** | present | clean | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **call** | participle | | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **keep** | can | lost fishing nets and called ghost gear | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **catch** | gerund | lost fishing nets and called ghost gear *not said here* | animals | | | year | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:15`. **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 ×6, 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: [Conservation: how people help animals…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/14/) - next →: [Animals of Australia and New Zealand:…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/)