Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 2
But some people think it is wrong to keep wild animals at all, even well cared for, because they lose their freedom and many are not endangered and will never go home.
Who acts: people, many · What happens: think, be, keep, care, lose, not be · To what, where: wild animals, all, freedom · 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 (people, many), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 think | cc |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wrong | expl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrong | cop |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 keep | mark |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wrong | csubj |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 animals | amod |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keep | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 keep | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cared | punct |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 well | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 cared | advmod |
| 17 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 keep | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 cared | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lose | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 lose | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lose | nsubj |
| 22 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrong | advcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lose | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 endangered | cc |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 endangered | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 endangered | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 endangered | advmod |
| 29 | endangered | endangered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lose | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 go | cc |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 go | aux |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 go | advmod |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 endangered | conj |
| 34 | home | home | ADV | _ | 33 go | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | some people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | wild animals | all | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Theme at all=Location | ||||
| 4 | care | participle | well property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | lose | present | people | people's freedom | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | not is | present | many | endangered property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not go | future | many not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:2.
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. 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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