Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 14
Births of rare animals like gorillas or rhinos are celebrated, because a small population needs every healthy baby.
Who acts: small population · What happens: celebrate, need · To what, where: Births, healthy baby
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 (small population), 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 | Births | birth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 celebrated | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 animals | case |
| 3 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animals | amod |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Births | nmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 gorillas | case |
| 6 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 animals | nmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 rhinos | cc |
| 8 | rhinos | rhino | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gorillas | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 10 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 needs | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 needs | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 population | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 population | amod |
| 15 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 needs | nsubj |
| 16 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 celebrated | advcl |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 baby | det |
| 18 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 baby | amod |
| 19 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 needs | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | present · passive | Births of rare animals like gorillas or rhinos | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | need | present | a small population | every healthy baby | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot baby=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:14.
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): no change. 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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