Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 15
In the cartoon Madagascar the zoo animals escape and find the wild scary and hard, which echoes a real problem: zoo-born animals often cannot survive in the wild.
Who acts: zoo animals, born animals · What happens: escape, find, echo, bear, not survive · To what, where: cartoon Madagascar, real problem, wild
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 animals, born animals), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Madagascar | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Madagascar | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Madagascar | compound |
| 4 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 escape | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animals | det |
| 6 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 animals | compound |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 escape | nsubj |
| 8 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 find | cc |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 escape | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wild | det |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 scary | amod |
| 13 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 find | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hard | cc |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 scary | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 echoes | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 echoes | nsubj |
| 18 | echoes | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hard | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 problem | det |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 problem | amod |
| 21 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 echoes | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 animals | punct |
| 23 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 born | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 born | punct |
| 25 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 animals | amod |
| 26 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 problem | nmod |
| 27 | often | often | ADV | _ | 30 survive | advmod |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 survive | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 survive | advmod |
| 30 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 animals | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 wild | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 wild | det |
| 33 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 survive | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | present | the zoo animals | the cartoon Madagascar | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | present | the zoo animals not said here | scary property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | echo | present | a real problem born animals | vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location problem=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | not survive | can | born animals not said here | the wild | often property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=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:15.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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