--- title: Grey squirrels brought from North America in the 1800s took over muc… — Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bal… · tree and pragmatics description: Grey squirrels brought from North America in the 1800s took over much of the red squirrel's range in Britain; they carry squirrelpox, which kills many reds, and reds survive best in places like Scotland. Who acts: Grey squirrels, squirrels, squirrelpox, reds. 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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 (Grey squirrels, squirrels, squirrelpox, reds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.lesson:13 # text = Grey squirrels brought from North America in the 1800s took over much of the red squirrel's range in Britain; they carry squirrelpox, which kills many reds, and reds survive best in places like Scotland. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 1800s 1800 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 10 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 over over ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 much much ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 squirrel squirrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 range range NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 24 squirrelpox squirrelpox NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 reds red NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 reds red NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 34 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 33 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | participle | | Grey squirrels *not said here* | | North America | | in the 1800s | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from america=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **take over** | past | Grey squirrels | the red squirrel's range | | Britain | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent range=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | present | squirrels *= squirrel* | squirrelpox | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squirrelpox=Theme | | 4 | **kill** | present | squirrelpox | many reds | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Theme | | 5 | **survive** | present | reds | | | places like Scotland | | well *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | 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. 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