Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 11
Good zoos are accredited by associations such as the AZA in America, BIAZA in Britain and Ireland, EAZA in Europe and the ZAA in Australia, which check care, safety and conservation; many roadside zoos are not.
Who acts: associations, check care · What happens: not accredit, check · To what, where: Good zoos
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 (associations, check care), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 zoos | amod |
| 2 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 accredited | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 accredited | aux:pass |
| 4 | accredited | accredit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 associations | case |
| 6 | associations | association | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 accredited | obl |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 AZA | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 AZA | det |
| 10 | AZA | AZA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 associations | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 America | case |
| 12 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 AZA | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 BIAZA | punct |
| 14 | BIAZA | BIAZA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 AZA | flat |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Britain | case |
| 16 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 BIAZA | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Ireland | cc |
| 18 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Britain | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 EAZA | punct |
| 20 | EAZA | EAZA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Britain | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Europe | case |
| 22 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 EAZA | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ZAA | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ZAA | det |
| 25 | ZAA | ZAA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Europe | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Australia | case |
| 27 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ZAA | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 care | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 check | nsubj |
| 30 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 care | compound |
| 31 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 associations | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 safety | punct |
| 33 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 care | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 conservation | cc |
| 35 | conservation | conservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 safety | conj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 zoos | punct |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 zoos | amod |
| 38 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 zoos | compound |
| 39 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 are | nsubj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 accredited | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 accredited | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accredited | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not accredit | present · passive | associations such the AZA in America and check care and safety and conservation | Good zoos | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | check | check care and safety and conservation | 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.
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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 ×6, 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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