Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 14
Some British zoos breed native animals like water voles (small river animals, not rats, that have vanished from much of Britain), sand lizards and pool frogs for release, and Chester Zoo and others have released thousands of water voles.
Who acts: British zoos, small river animals · What happens: breed, vanish, release · To what, where: native animals, much, thousands
This is a sentence of the lesson «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» 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 (British zoos, small river animals), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 zoos | det |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 zoos | amod |
| 3 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 breed | nsubj |
| 4 | breed | breed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 animals | amod |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 breed | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 voles | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 voles | compound |
| 9 | voles | vole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 animals | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 animals | punct |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 animals | amod |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 animals | compound |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 voles | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rats | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 rats | advmod |
| 16 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 animals | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 vanished | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 vanished | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 vanished | aux |
| 20 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 animals | acl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 much | case |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 vanished | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Britain | case |
| 24 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 much | nmod |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 animals | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lizards | punct |
| 27 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lizards | compound |
| 28 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 animals | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 frogs | cc |
| 30 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 frogs | compound |
| 31 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lizards | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 release | case |
| 33 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lizards | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Chester | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Chester | cc |
| 36 | Chester | Chester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 breed | parataxis |
| 37 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Chester | flat |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 released | cc |
| 39 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 Zoo | conj |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 released | aux |
| 41 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 breed | conj |
| 42 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 released | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 voles | case |
| 44 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 voles | compound |
| 45 | voles | vole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 thousands | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 breed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breed | present | some British zoos | native animals and sand lizards for release and pool frogs | like water voles | tree rules | |||
| 2 | vanish | present · perfect | small river animals and rats | much of Britain | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from much=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | release | present · perfect | some British zoos not said here | thousands of water voles | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer thousand=Source |
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:114-back-to-the-wild.lesson:14.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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