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title: Protecting and joining up bamboo forests in China helped giant panda… — Conservation: how people help animals come back · tree and pragmatics
description: Protecting and joining up bamboo forests in China helped giant pandas, which moved from endangered to vulnerable in 2016 when wild numbers grew to about 1,800. Who acts: Protecting, giant pandas, wild numbers. A sentence of the lesson «Conservation: how people help animals come back» of the biology 
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# Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 6

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Protecting and joining up bamboo forests in China helped giant pandas, which moved from endangered to vulnerable in 2016 when wild numbers grew to about 1,800.

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**Who acts:** Protecting, giant pandas, wild numbers · **What happens:** protect, join up, help, move, grow · **To what, where:** bamboo forests, China, giant pandas, endangered

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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 (Protecting, giant pandas, wild numbers), 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:6
# text = Protecting and joining up bamboo forests in China helped giant pandas, which moved from endangered to vulnerable in 2016 when wild numbers grew to about 1,800.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	joining	join	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	endangered	endangered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	1,800	1,800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **protect** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **join up** | gerund |  | bamboo forests |  | China |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient |
| 3 | **help** | past | Protecting | giant pandas |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent panda=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **move** | past | giant pandas |  |  | endangered |  | to vulnerable; in 2016 | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from endangered=Source to vulnerable=Trajectory in 2016=Destination |
| 5 | **grow** | past | wild numbers |  |  |  |  | to 1,800 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:6`.

**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): 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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