Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 14
Zoo research on health, behaviour and breeding can help wild animals; blood tests on zoo elephants helped scientists understand a deadly elephant virus.
Who acts: Zoo research, zoo elephants, scientists · What happens: help, understand · To what, where: wild animals, scientists, deadly elephant virus
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 (Zoo research, zoo elephants, scientists), 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 | 2 research | compound |
| 2 | research | research | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 help | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 health | case |
| 4 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 research | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 behaviour | punct |
| 6 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 health | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 breeding | cc |
| 8 | breeding | breeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 health | conj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 help | aux |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 animals | amod |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 help | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 tests | punct |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tests | compound |
| 15 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 animals | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 elephants | case |
| 17 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 elephants | compound |
| 18 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tests | nmod |
| 19 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 elephants | acl:relcl |
| 20 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 helped | obj |
| 21 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 helped | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 virus | det |
| 23 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 virus | amod |
| 24 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 virus | compound |
| 25 | virus | virus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 understand | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | Zoo research on health and behaviour and breeding | wild animals and blood tests on zoo elephants | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | help | past | zoo elephants not said here | scientists | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent scientist=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | understand | infinitive | scientists not said here | a deadly elephant virus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer virus=Stimulus |
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:14.
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): no change. 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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