Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 5
Good zoos breed to keep rare animals healthy and varied, not just to make cute babies for the news, and that is why some animals in zoos are not bred at all.
Who acts: Good zoos, that · What happens: breed, keep, not make, be, not breed · To what, where: rare animals, cute babies, animals, all
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 (Good zoos, that), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 zoos | amod |
| 2 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 breed | nsubj |
| 3 | breed | breed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 breed | xcomp |
| 6 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animals | amod |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keep | obj |
| 8 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 varied | cc |
| 10 | varied | varied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 healthy | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 make | advmod |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 make | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 keep | conj |
| 16 | cute | cute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 babies | amod |
| 17 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 news | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 news | det |
| 20 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 why | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 why | cc |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 why | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 why | cop |
| 25 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 bred | advmod |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 animals | det |
| 27 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bred | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 zoos | case |
| 29 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 animals | nmod |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 bred | aux:pass |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 bred | advmod |
| 32 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 breed | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 all | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 bred | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 breed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breed | present | Good zoos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | Good zoos not said here | rare animals | healthy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 3 | not make | to-infinitive | Good zoos not said here | cute babies | for the news | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent baby=Product for news=Asset | |||
| 4 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not breed | present · passive | some animals in zoos | all | tree rules |
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:5.
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. 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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