Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 10
Frozen zoos keep cells, eggs and sperm of rare animals at minus 196 degrees in liquid nitrogen; San Diego's Frozen Zoo holds cells from over a thousand kinds of animals.
Who acts: Frozen zoos, Frozen Zoo · What happens: keep, hold · To what, where: cells, minus 196 degrees, thousand kinds
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 (Frozen zoos, Frozen Zoo), 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 | Frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 zoos | amod |
| 2 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 eggs | punct |
| 6 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cells | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sperm | cc |
| 8 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cells | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 animals | case |
| 10 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 animals | amod |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cells | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 degrees | case |
| 13 | minus | minus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 degrees | amod |
| 14 | 196 | 196 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 degrees | nummod |
| 15 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 nitrogen | case |
| 17 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 nitrogen | amod |
| 18 | nitrogen | nitrogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 degrees | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 holds | punct |
| 20 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Zoo | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Diego | Diego | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 San | flat |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 San | case |
| 23 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Zoo | compound |
| 24 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 holds | nsubj |
| 25 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | parataxis |
| 26 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 holds | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 kinds | case |
| 28 | over | over | ADV | _ | 30 thousand | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 thousand | det |
| 30 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 kinds | nummod |
| 31 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 cells | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 animals | case |
| 33 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 kinds | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Frozen zoos | cells of rare animals and eggs and sperm | minus 196 degrees in liquid nitrogen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cell=Theme at degree=Location | |||
| 2 | hold | present | San's Frozen Zoo | cells | thousand kinds of animals | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=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, 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:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals.lesson:10.
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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