Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 18

Many zoo animals, such as meerkats, are not endangered, and critics say breeding them helps only the zoo; some zoos focus on rare small animals like frogs, snails and insects.

Who acts: Many zoo animals, critics, breeding, zoos · What happens: not be, say, breed, help, focus · To what, where: critics, zoo · 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: who acts (Many zoo animals, critics, breeding, zoos), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animals	compound
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 endangered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 meerkats	punct
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	7 meerkats	case
6	as	as	ADP	_	5 such	fixed
7	meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 animals	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 animals	punct
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 endangered	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 endangered	advmod
11	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 say	cc
14	critics	critic	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 endangered	conj
16	breeding	breed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 helps	csubj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 breeding	obj
18	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 say	ccomp
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 zoo	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 zoo	det
21	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 helps	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 focus	punct
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 zoos	det
24	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 focus	nsubj
25	focus	focus	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 endangered	parataxis
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 animals	case
27	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 animals	amod
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 animals	amod
29	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 focus	obl
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 frogs	case
31	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 animals	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 snails	punct
33	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 frogs	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 insects	cc
35	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 frogs	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 endangered	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Many zoo animals such meerkats		endangered property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	critics			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	breed	gerund		critics = critic		tree rules
4	help	present	breeding	the zoo		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zoo=Beneficiary
5	focus	present	some zoos		on rare small animals like frogs and snails and insects	vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on animal=Topic

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:18.

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 ×3. 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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