Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 16

Many zoos fund rangers and scientists in places like Kenya, because protecting animals where they live is often more effective than breeding them in zoos.

Who acts: Many zoos, zoos, protecting · What happens: fund, protect, live, be, breed · To what, where: rangers, places, animals, zoos

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 (Many zoos, zoos, protecting), 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	2 zoos	amod
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fund	nsubj
3	fund	fund	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rangers	ranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fund	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scientists	cc
6	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rangers	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 places	case
8	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fund	obl
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 Kenya	case
10	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 places	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fund	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 effective	mark
13	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 effective	csubj
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 protecting	obj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 live	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 live	nsubj
17	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 animals	acl:relcl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 effective	cop
19	often	often	ADV	_	21 effective	advmod
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 effective	advmod
21	effective	effective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fund	advcl
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 breeding	mark
23	breeding	breed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 effective	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 breeding	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 zoos	case
26	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 breeding	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fund	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fund	present	Many zoos	rangers and scientists		places like Kenya		tree rules
2	protect	gerund			animals			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary
3	live	present	zoos = zoo					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	protecting				effective, often property	tree rules
5	breed	gerund	protecting not said here	zoos = zoo		zoos		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:114-back-to-the-wild.lesson:16.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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