Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 8

Zoo-born animals may not know how to find food or avoid predators, so many first go through a soft release in big pens in the wild; golden lion tamarins survived better once they were released in family groups.

Who acts: born animals, many, golden lion tamarins · What happens: bear, not know, find, avoid, go, survive · To what, where: food, predators, soft release, animals, family groups · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (born animals, many, golden lion tamarins), 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	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 born	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Zoo	punct
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 know	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 find	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 know	ccomp
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 avoid	cc
13	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 find	conj
14	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 avoid	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 go	nsubj
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 go	advmod
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 avoid	conj
20	through	through	ADP	_	23 release	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 release	det
22	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 release	amod
23	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 pens	case
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pens	amod
26	pens	pen	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 release	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 wild	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wild	det
29	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pens	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 tamarins	punct
31	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tamarins	amod
32	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tamarins	compound
33	tamarins	tamarin	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 survived	nsubj
34	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 go	conj
35	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 survived	advmod
36	once	once	SCONJ	_	39 released	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 released	nsubj:pass
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 released	aux:pass
39	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 survived	advcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 groups	case
41	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 groups	compound
42	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 released	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	not know	may	born animals				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	find	to-infinitive		food			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
4	avoid	infinitive		predators			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent predator=Location
5	go	infinitive	many		a soft release in big pens in the wild	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through release=Initial_Location
6	survive	past	golden lion tamarins			well property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	release	past · passive		animals = animal	family groups		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=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: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): R5-strong ×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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