Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 4
That is why we cannot simply open all the cages: a release works only when the wild home is protected and the thing that killed the animals in the first place has gone.
Who acts: That, we, release, thing · What happens: be, not open, work, protect, kill, go · To what, where: cages, wild home, animals, first place
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 (That, we, release, thing), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 open | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 open | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 open | advmod |
| 7 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 8 open | advmod |
| 8 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 cages | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cages | det |
| 11 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 open | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 works | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 release | det |
| 14 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 works | nsubj |
| 15 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | parataxis |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 protected | advmod |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 protected | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 home | det |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 home | amod |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 protected | aux:pass |
| 22 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 works | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 gone | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 thing | det |
| 25 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gone | nsubj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 killed | nsubj |
| 27 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thing | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 animals | det |
| 29 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 killed | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 place | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 place | det |
| 32 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 place | amod |
| 33 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 killed | obl |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 gone | aux |
| 35 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 protected | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not open | can | we | all cages | simply property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cage=Theme | |||
| 3 | work | present | a release | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | protect | present · passive | the wild home | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | kill | past | the thing | the animals | the first place | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 6 | go | present · perfect | the thing | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:114-back-to-the-wild.lesson:4.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/4/