Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 0

Zoos began as collections for kings to show off their power: for about 600 years English kings kept lions, an elephant and even a polar bear at the Tower of London, in small cages with poor care.

Who acts: Zoos, English kings · What happens: begin, show off, keep · To what, where: power, lions, Tower

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why zoos exist and what critics say» 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 (Zoos, English kings), 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	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 collections	case
4	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 began	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 kings	case
6	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 began	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 show	mark
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 show	compound:prt
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 power	nmod:poss
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	obj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 kings	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 600	advmod
15	600	600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kings	obl
17	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kings	amod
18	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 power	appos
19	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 kings	acl
20	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 kept	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 elephant	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 elephant	det
23	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lions	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bear	cc
25	even	even	ADV	_	28 bear	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bear	det
27	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bear	amod
28	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lions	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 Tower	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Tower	det
31	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 kept	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 London	case
33	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Tower	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cages	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 cages	case
36	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cages	amod
37	cages	cage	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 kept	obl
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 care	case
39	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 care	amod
40	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cages	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Zoos			as collections; for kings	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	show off	to-infinitive	Zoos not said here	Zoos's power			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Recipient
3	keep	past	English kings not said here	lions and a elephant and a polar bear	the Tower of London	in small cages with poor care	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lion=Theme at tower=Location

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:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say.lesson:0.

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 ×2, 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.

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