--- title: Protecting nature means keeping homes for wild animals — forests, we… — Caring for the environment · tree and pragmatics description: Protecting nature means keeping homes for wild animals — forests, wetlands, meadows and seas — because when a habitat is destroyed, the animals living there lose their food and shelter. Who acts: Protecting, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» of the world course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Caring for the environment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/) / 8 # Caring for the environment, sentence 8 Protecting nature means keeping homes for wild animals — forests, wetlands, meadows and seas — because when a habitat is destroyed, the animals living there lose their food and shelter. **Who acts:** Protecting, animals · **What happens:** protect, mean, keep, destroy, live, lose · **To what, where:** nature, homes, habitat, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» of the world 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, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:057-environment.lesson:8 # text = Protecting nature means keeping homes for wild animals — forests, wetlands, meadows and seas — because when a habitat is destroyed, the animals living there lose their food and shelter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 057-environment.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Protecting protect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 ccomp _ _ 5 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 — - PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 wetlands wetland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 17 — - PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:mark 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 habitat habitat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 27 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 29 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **protect** | gerund | | nature | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Beneficiary | | 2 | **mean** | present | Protecting | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **keep** | gerund | | homes | | | | for wild animals | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | | 4 | **destroy** | present · passive | | a habitat | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **live** | gerund | the animals *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **lose** | infinitive | the animals | animals's food and shelter | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Eventuality | 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:world:057-environment.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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: [Caring for the environment, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/7/) - next →: [Caring for the environment, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/)