Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 13
Zoos sometimes stop breeding an animal when there is no space or no need, and some use birth control to manage numbers.
Who acts: Zoos, space, some · What happens: stop, breed, be, use, manage · To what, where: animal, birth control, numbers
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 (Zoos, space, 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 | Zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 stop | advmod |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | breeding | breed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stop | xcomp |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 animal | det |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breeding | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 is | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 space | det |
| 11 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 need | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 need | det |
| 14 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 space | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 use | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 use | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 use | nsubj |
| 18 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | conj |
| 19 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 control | compound |
| 20 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 use | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 manage | mark |
| 22 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 use | advcl |
| 23 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 manage | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Zoos | sometimes property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | breed | gerund | Zoos not said here | a animal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | does | present | no space or no need | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | use | present | some | birth control | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Patient | ||||
| 5 | manage | to-infinitive | some not said here | numbers | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals/13/