Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 7

When close relatives have babies together, inherited illnesses become more common, so swapping animals keeps the family tree healthy.

Who acts: close relatives, inherited illnesses, swapping · What happens: have, inherit, become, swap, keep · To what, where: babies, animals, family tree

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 (close relatives, inherited illnesses, swapping), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 have	mark
2	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 relatives	amod
3	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 become	advcl
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 illnesses	punct
8	inherited	inherit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 illnesses	amod
9	illnesses	illness	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 become	nsubj
10	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 common	advmod
12	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 become	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swapping	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 swapping	advmod
15	swapping	swap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 keeps	csubj
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 swapping	obj
17	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 become	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
19	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tree	compound
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keeps	obj
21	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 keeps	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	close relatives	babies	together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
2	inherit	participle				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	become	present	inherited illnesses		common property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	swap	gerund		animals		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
5	keep	present	swapping	the family tree	healthy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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:7.

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 ×4, R6-punct-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.

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