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title: In cartoons one hero saves a species in an afternoon; in real life i… — Conservation: how people help animals come back · tree and pragmatics
description: In cartoons one hero saves a species in an afternoon; in real life it takes scientists, rangers, zoo keepers and ordinary people working for decades, with every kakapo named and every condor counted. Who acts: one hero, it, zoo keepers. A sentence of the lesson «Conservation: how people help animals
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# Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 3

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In cartoons one hero saves a species in an afternoon; in real life it takes scientists, rangers, zoo keepers and ordinary people working for decades, with every kakapo named and every condor counted.

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**Who acts:** one hero, it, zoo keepers · **What happens:** save, take, work, name, count · **To what, where:** species, cartoons, scientists, real life, kakapo, condor

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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 (one hero, it, zoo keepers), 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:3
# text = In cartoons one hero saves a species in an afternoon; in real life it takes scientists, rangers, zoo keepers and ordinary people working for decades, with every kakapo named and every condor counted.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	species	species	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	rangers	ranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj
26	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	kakapo	kakapo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	condor	condor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | present | one hero | a species |  | cartoons | afternoon |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present | it | scientists and rangers and zoo keepers and ordinary people |  | real life |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent scientist=Value in life=Location |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | zoo keepers *not said here* |  |  |  | decade | with every kakapo | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with kakapo=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **name** | participle |  | every kakapo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **count** | participle · passive |  | every condor |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:078-conservation-animals-come-back.lesson:3`.

**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, R5-strong ×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/).

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