Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 8
A studbook records every animal of one kind in zoos: its parents, birth, moves and offspring; some go back over a hundred years.
Who acts: studbook, records · What happens: record, go back · To what, where: animal
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 (studbook, records), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 studbook | det |
| 2 | studbook | studbook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 records | nsubj |
| 3 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 go | nsubj |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 animal | det |
| 5 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 records | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 kind | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 kind | nummod |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 animal | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 zoos | case |
| 10 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kind | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 parents | punct |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parents | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 animal | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 birth | punct |
| 15 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 parents | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 moves | punct |
| 17 | moves | move | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 parents | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 offspring | cc |
| 19 | offspring | offspring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 parents | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 go | nsubj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 years | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hundred | det |
| 26 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 back | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 records | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | a studbook | every animal of one kind in zoos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go back | present | records | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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:8.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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