Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 12
Black-footed ferrets were thought extinct until a small group was found in Wyoming in 1981; they were bred and released, and a clone called Elizabeth Ann, made from cells frozen in the 1980s, was born in 2020.
What happens: think, find, breed, release, call, make · To what, where: footed ferrets, small group, Wyoming, ferrets, clone, cells · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 footed | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Black | punct |
| 3 | footed | foot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ferrets | amod |
| 4 | ferrets | ferret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | aux:pass |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | xcomp |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 found | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 group | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 group | amod |
| 11 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 thought | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Wyoming | case |
| 15 | Wyoming | Wyoming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1981 | case |
| 17 | 1981 | 1981 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 found | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 bred | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bred | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bred | aux:pass |
| 21 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 thought | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 released | cc |
| 23 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bred | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 born | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 clone | det |
| 27 | clone | clone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 born | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 clone | acl |
| 29 | Elizabeth | Elizabeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 called | xcomp |
| 30 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Elizabeth | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 clone | punct |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 clone | acl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 cells | case |
| 34 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 made | obl |
| 35 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 cells | acl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 1980s | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 1980s | det |
| 38 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 35 frozen | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 born | punct |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 born | aux:pass |
| 41 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bred | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 2020 | case |
| 43 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 born | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · passive | footed ferrets | extinct property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | a small group | Wyoming | in 1981 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | breed | past · passive | ferrets = ferret | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | release | participle | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 5 | call | participle | a clone not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | make | participle | a clone not said here | cells | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from cell=Material | ||||
| 7 | freeze | participle | cells not said here | the 1980s | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | bear | past · passive | a clone | 2020 | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:12.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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