Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 13

Studies suggest many visitors learn something about animals at zoos, though not all, and critics answer that people can learn from nature films too.

Who acts: Studies, many visitors, critics, people · What happens: suggest, learn, answer · To what, where: something, zoos, nature films · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Studies, many visitors, critics, people), 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	Studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 suggest	nsubj
2	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 visitors	amod
4	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learn	nsubj
5	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 suggest	ccomp
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 learn	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 animals	case
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 something	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 zoos	case
10	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 something	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 all	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 all	mark
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 all	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 zoos	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 answer	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 answer	cc
17	critics	critic	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 answer	nsubj
18	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 suggest	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 learn	mark
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 learn	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 learn	aux
22	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 answer	ccomp
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 films	case
24	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 films	compound
25	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 learn	obl
26	too	too	ADV	_	22 learn	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 suggest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present	Studies				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	learn	present	many visitors	something	zoos	about animals	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
3	answer speech: assert	present	critics				tree rules
4	learn	can	people		nature films		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from film=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:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say.lesson:13.

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 ×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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