--- title: Red kites were almost wiped out in England and Scotland by poisoning… — Conservation: how people help animals come back · tree and pragmatics description: Red kites were almost wiped out in England and Scotland by poisoning and shooting; so few were left that birds of the same kind from Spain and Sweden were released from 1989, and there are now thousands of pairs. Who acts: thousands. 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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 (thousands), 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:9 # text = Red kites were almost wiped out in England and Scotland by poisoning and shooting; so few were left that birds of the same kind from Spain and Sweden were released from 1989, and there are now thousands of pairs. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 kites kite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 almost almost ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 wiped wipe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 by by SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 poisoning poison VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 shooting shooting NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 21 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 Sweden Sweden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 1989 1989 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 there there PRON EX _ 37 expl _ _ 37 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 38 now now ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wipe out** | past · passive | | Red kites | | England and Scotland | | almost *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in england=Trajectory | | 2 | **poison** | gerund | | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **leave** | past · passive | | few | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **release** | past · passive | | birds of the same kind from Spain and Sweden | | 1989 | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source | | 5 | **does** | present | thousands of pairs | | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «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:9`. **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, R8-pos-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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/8/) - next →: [Conservation: how people help animals…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/)