Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 13

Many zoo animals live longer than wild ones thanks to food, medicine and safety from predators, but some, like elephants and orcas, have often lived shorter lives in captivity than in the wild.

Who acts: Many zoo animals, some · What happens: live · To what, where: thanks, shorter lives, captivity

This is a sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» 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 (Many zoo animals, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animals	compound
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 live	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 ones	case
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 longer	obl
9	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thanks	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 medicine	punct
13	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 food	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 safety	cc
15	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 food	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 predators	case
17	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 safety	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lived	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 lived	cc
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 lived	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 elephants	punct
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 elephants	case
23	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 some	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 orcas	cc
25	orcas	orca	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 elephants	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 elephants	punct
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 lived	aux
28	often	often	ADV	_	29 lived	advmod
29	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 live	conj
30	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 lives	amod
31	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lived	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 captivity	case
33	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lived	obl
34	than	than	ADP	_	37 wild	case
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 wild	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wild	det
37	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 captivity	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Many zoo animals	thanks to food and medicine and safety from predators				long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present · perfect	some	shorter lives		captivity than the wild		often property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=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, 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:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:13.

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, 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.

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