Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 0
If only a few snow leopards are left in zoos, they could soon all be cousins, and when close relatives have babies together, hidden illnesses in the family show up much more often.
Who acts: leopards, close relatives, hidden illnesses · What happens: leave, be, have, show up · To what, where: few snow leopards, zoos, cousins, babies
This is a sentence of the lesson «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» 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 (leopards, close relatives, hidden illnesses), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 left | mark |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 leopards | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 leopards | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 leopards | amod |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leopards | compound |
| 6 | leopards | leopard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 left | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux:pass |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 show | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 zoos | case |
| 10 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 left | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cousins | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 cousins | aux |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 cousins | advmod |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 cousins | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 cousins | cop |
| 17 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 left | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cousins | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 close | advmod |
| 21 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 relatives | amod |
| 22 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cousins | conj |
| 24 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 have | obj |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 have | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 27 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 illnesses | amod |
| 28 | illnesses | illness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 show | nsubj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 family | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 family | det |
| 31 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 illnesses | nmod |
| 32 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 show | compound:prt |
| 34 | much | much | ADV | _ | 35 more | advmod |
| 35 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 often | advmod |
| 36 | often | often | ADV | _ | 32 show | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 show | punct |
Pragmatics
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a few snow leopards | zoos | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in zoo=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | could | leopards = leopard | cousins | all, soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | close relatives | babies | together property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | |||
| 4 | show up | present | hidden illnesses in the family | often property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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.
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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 ×3, 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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