Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 15

If a mother cannot care for her baby, keepers may hand-rear it, but they try to keep it with its own kind, because a chick raised only by people may not act like its own kind or fear danger in the wild; condor chicks were fed with puppets shaped like condor heads.

Who acts: mother, keepers, chick · What happens: not care, rear, try, keep, raise, not act · To what, where: hand, chick, condor chicks, puppets

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 (mother, keepers, chick), 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	_	6 care	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 care	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 care	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 care	advmod
6	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 rear	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 baby	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 baby	nmod:poss
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 care	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 care	punct
11	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rear	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 rear	aux
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rear	obl:unmarked
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 hand	punct
15	rear	rear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rear	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 try	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 try	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 try	nsubj
20	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 rear	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 keep	mark
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 try	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 keep	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 kind	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 kind	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 kind	amod
27	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keep	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chick	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	38 act	mark
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 chick	det
31	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 act	nsubj
32	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 chick	acl
33	only	only	ADV	_	32 raised	advmod
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 people	case
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 raised	obl:agent
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 act	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 act	advmod
38	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 try	advcl
39	like	like	ADP	_	42 kind	case
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 kind	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 kind	amod
42	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 act	obl
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 danger	cc
44	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 act	conj
45	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 kind	conj
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 wild	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 wild	det
48	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 kind	nmod
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 chicks	punct
50	condor	condor	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 chicks	compound
51	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 fed	nsubj:pass
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 fed	aux:pass
53	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 rear	parataxis
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 puppets	case
55	puppets	puppet	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 fed	obl
56	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 puppets	acl
57	like	like	ADP	_	59 heads	case
58	condor	condor	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 heads	compound
59	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 shaped	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 rear	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not care a condition, not said to happen	can	a mother		for mother's baby	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for baby=Theme
2	rear	may	keepers	hand		vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	try	present	keepers = keeper			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	keepers = keeper not said here	hand	with hand's own kind	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	raise	participle		a chick not said here		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not act	may	a chick		like chick's own kind in the wild or danger	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like kind=Attribute
7	fear	infinitive	a chick not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	feed	past · passive		condor chicks	with puppets	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
9	shape	participle		puppets not said here	like condor heads	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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:15.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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